SHERIDAN — A Forestville resident is facing charges for selling a stolen AR-15 rifle.

Chautauqua County sheriff’s deputies reported Thursday that on March 14, an investigation was conducted by the Criminal Investigation Division. It was found that Franklin J. Silvagnia, 24, was knowingly in possession of a stolen rifle and had sold it to another individual. The AR-15 was recovered at a later date and time in a narcotics search warrant conducted by the Southern Tier Regional Drug Task Force.

Silvagnia will answer his charges of criminal sale of a semiautomatic rifle and fourth-degree criminal possession of stolen property in town of Sheridan court.