Casper Man Sentenced to 95 Months in Prison for Thefts and Auto Burglaries

Richard Joseph McCloskey, 36, ultimately pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm before Senior U.S. District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal in Cheyenne.

A Casper man was sentenced to 95 months in prison on Wednesday after a Casper Police Department investigation last summer identified him as the suspect in multiple thefts and auto burglaries.

Richard Joseph McCloskey, 36, ultimately pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm before Senior U.S. District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal in Cheyenne. McCloskey has a felony burglary conviction from 2016 and is not allowed to possess firearms.

A Koch MP7 and matching suppressor were stolen from the truck of an oil field worker who was staying at a hotel in town for training last August, records show. The victim holds a federal firearms license and regularly builds and demos firearms for law enforcement, the complaint states.

According to the Casper police report, the man went to his truck in the hotel parking lot on the morning of Aug. 15, 2023, to find the firearms and silencer missing, along with 20 1-ounce South African Kruggerands (gold coins). The coins were reportedly worth about $40,000, according to the Justice Department release.

Police said they observed McCloskey on security camera pawning two of the gold coins that day, getting $3,100 for them. The CPD report indicates McCloskey may have spent that sum on 300–400 fentanyl pills.

The next day, the pawn shop manager alerted police that McCloskey was back to sell another coin. Police responded and McCloskey was arrested. The GMC Sierra he arrived in had also been reported stolen in mid-July, the report said.

A search of McCloskey’s storage unit also revealed items tying him to multiple auto burglaries over the previous month, according to the CPD report.

McCloskey pleaded guilty on Apr. 4. This crime was investigated by Casper police and ATF agents. It was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan C. Coppom.

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