A Suffolk man was sentenced in federal court Thursday to 25 years in prison for possession of a firearm during a drug trafficking crime.

Brian Williams, 38, was selling heroin in Suffolk, according to court documents and a press release from the office of U.S. Attorney G. Zachary Terwilliger of the Eastern District of Virginia.

Law enforcement agents searched his residence on Dec. 21, 2018, and located numerous loaded firearms, a distribution quantity of fentanyl, digital scales, drug cutting agents, drug packaging materials and about $1,500 in cash, the press release stated. Williams, who was already a convicted felon, was also in the residence with many of the firearms within arm’s reach.

He originally was indicted on two counts of distributing heroin and one count each of possession with intent to distribute heroin and of possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking and being a felon in possession of a firearm.

As part of a plea agreement filed in June, he pleaded guilty only to possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, according to court documents.