Jeremy Meeks, the California man whose mug shot went viral last year, was sentenced to two years in prison, it was reported Thursday.
He was sentenced at a federal court in Stockton, CBS-13 reported. Meeks was convicted of one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Specifically, he got 27 months in prison. He'll also have to partake in a 500-hour Bureau of Prisons Substance Abuse Treatment Program.
Meeks, better known as “Dreamy McMug Shot” ... was sentenced to 27 months in a federal prison in California for being a felon in possession of a .45 caliber pistol.
Meeks’ mug shot landed on the Internet in 2014 after his arrest in Stockton, CA for carrying a loaded firearm. Despite being in and out of prisons for more than a decade ... thousands of admirers were drooling over the con, and modeling agencies were even lining up -- y'know, just in case.
Meeks, 30, said over the summer that he isn’t “some drug kingpin.”
“I appreciate [the attention] but I just want them to know that this is really not me,” he said of the viral attention. “I’m not some kingpin.”
Meeks also has a wife and a son, and he served several years in prison for theft.
