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Former Oakwood cop Marcia Masters was sentenced Tuesday to two years in federal prison after being convicted on a gun charge.

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Marcia Masters

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- A former Oakwood Village police officer who was once named as Esquire Magazine's hostess of the year was sentenced Tuesday to two years in federal prison for buying three guns and lying on a form by stating she purchased them for herself.

Marcia Masters, 48, formerly of Hudson, bought the .22-caliber revolver and two AR-15 assault rifles from a shop in Broadview Heights in 2013. She bought them for Steve Farzam, a Santa Monica, a California hotelier who faces his own legal troubles. Farzam, in turn, sold one of the assault rifles to an informant working for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Masters took her case to trial, and a jury convicted her in February for making false statements. U.S. District Judge Benita Pearson in Youngstown handed down the sentence.

Masters will be on supervised release for three years once she is out of prison.

Prior to becoming a cop, Masters, who also goes by her married surname name of Krone, worked nights as a hostess at Red, The Steakhouse on Richmond Road in Beachwood. During the day, she attended the Cleveland Heights Police Academy.

Her two careers caught the attention of Esquire, which named Masters Hostess of the Year and photographed her in a slinky, strapless black dress for publication.

In a court filing, her attorney, James Kersey, tried to argue for a shorter prison sentence, saying that Masters has breast cancer and that she does not have long to live.

She also has 34 pending charges in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court. County prosecutors allege that she used department computers to access personal information for information not related to her police work.

Kersey did not return a phone call Tuesday afternoon.