A Pulaski woman has been convicted in her second trial on charges related to selling firearms to a convicted felon who is not allowed to buy them.

A jury Friday returned verdicts of guilty on charges of conspiracy and making false statements in records kept by federally licensed firearms dealers against Tammy Pagley, 34, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Paul Brysh, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Pittsburgh.

The jury of nine women and three men deliberated 2è hours, completing a three-day trial, Brysh said.

Ms. Pagley, formerly Tammy Clark, has been free on bond and was released. She will be sentenced May 9 by U.S. District Court Judge Gary L. Lancaster.

Ms. Pagley could be sentenced to up to 10 years in prison and a $500,000 fine, Brysh said.

She also was indicted on a charge of selling or delivering firearms or ammunition other than a shotgun or rifle to someone younger than 21 but was not retried on that charge, Brysh said.

Ms. Pagley's first trial in October on all three charges ended in a mistrial, when the jury was deadlocked after 16 hours of deliberation.

Ms. Pagley was one of four people charged in the case.

Alexander Pagley Sr., 56, who lives with Ms. Pagley, and Pagley's son, Alexander Jr., 33, and Jeffrey Natale, 40, both of New Castle, pleaded guilty in October to knowingly selling a firearm or ammunition to a prohibited person.

They could be jailed for up to 10 years and fined up to $250,000. Their sentencing hearings are set for March 21.

Natale testified at Ms. Pagley's trial, Brysh said.

Pagley Jr. operated Pete's Bait and Sport in New Castle, and the other three were employees of the store.

The indictment alleged that nine firearms were sold on four occasions in 2001 through a straw purchaser to a convicted felon. A straw purchaser is someone who says he or she is the actual buyer of a firearm, when he or she really is buying it for someone else.

The four put the guns in the name of another person, the U.S. Attorney's Office said. Ms. Pagley filled out the paperwork for the first two purchases.

The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms conducted an undercover investigation and secretly recorded the transactions.