Salisbury man sentenced to prison following firearm conviction

SALISBURY, Md. – A man convicted of firearm charges has been sentenced to prison.

On Friday, 39-year-old Alan Donoway was sentenced to 16 years in prison on firearm violations, five of which are a mandatory minimum sentence with limited possibility of parole. He was sentenced to an additional 12 years consecutive to the firearm sentence for violating his probation.

Donaway was convicted earlier this year by a Wicomico County jury of illegal possession of a firearm by a person prohibited by a felony conviction, possession of a firearm by a person prohibited by controlled dangerous substance conviction, illegal possession of a regulated firearm, loaded handgun on person, loaded handgun in vehicle, and illegal possession of ammunition.

The charges stem from an incident in July 2020, when Donoway contacted the mother of his child, instructing her to take all of the children away from the motel where she was staying in Delmar, Maryland. Donoway then displayed a handgun while on video chat and indicated that he was on his way to the motel to exact revenge on an occupant of a nearby motel room. Police were contacted, and Wicomico County Sheriff’s Deputies stopped Donoway’s vehicle a few miles south of Delmar. A loaded handgun and multiple magazines were found inside the vehicle, and police say the handgun found in the vehicle was identical to the one he displayed on video chat.

Donoway is prohibited from possessing handguns and ammunition due to previous felony convictions for crimes of violence.