WFRM.net reports: A McKean County man was sentenced this week in federal court on charges relating to the Ralph “Bucky” Phillips case from last summer. Todd Nelson, 31, of Ludlow was ordered to spend 23 months and 27 days for receiving, possessing and concealing 35 guns which authorities believe Phillips stole from a Chautauqua County New York gun dealer. Nelson is currently serving time in a Pennsylvania State prison after pleading guilty early this year top hindering apprehension of Phillips who stayed at his home from August 17-28 last summer while hiding from police. Phillips escaped from a New York State prison in early April 2006 and zig zagged across the border for about five months. He shot and wounded a New York State Trooper in June near Corning and Elmira and then in late August shot two more troopers near his girlfriend’s home in Chautauqua County. One of the officers, Joseph Longobardo died a few days later from his wounds. Phillips who was captured following a massive two-state manhunt in early September near Warren, PA, was sentenced recently in New York State to two life terms without parole and a 40 year to life term for the three shootings. He’s believed to have been responsible for numerous thefts and burglaries in both Pennsylvania and New York while on the run, in fact, Kane-based state police recovered a vehicle stolen by Phillips on a forestry road near Nelson’s home in late August.