 I'm Peter McArthur, WDEL News. A Reading, Pennsylvania man facing the possibility of life in prison after being found guilty in May by a federal jury of cocaine possession and being found guilty this week in a bench trial for possession of a firearm during a drug trafficking offense. 36-year-old Phillips Epps arrested in February 2023 at a Wilmington motel. Police found two loaded handguns with obliterated serial numbers, cocaine, other packaged drugs laced with fentanyl and xylosine, and more than 15 grand in suspected drug money.