This happened in Australia.
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/good-weekend/life-in-prison-whats-it-really-like...This story caused a book to be written by his wife:
In Sickness, In Health … and In Jail, by Mel Jacob (Allen and Unwin, $30) is released on August 24.
Story about Patrick Jacob .
A suburban dad’s poor decisions lead him to jail. How does his incredulous wife – and mother to his two children – adjust to the stiff sentence?In his spare time in the years that followed, he started to sell things online – secondhand Apple computers he had restored, kids' kites and, eventually, camping, hunting and archery equipment.
By 2010, he had opened Combat Australia, a retail outlet with a strong online business.Late in 2010, a new customer,
a man called Alex, who said he was from Adelaide, started to spend money with Combat. One day,
Alex asked Patrick if he could get him a crossbow, a powerful mechanised bow that is legal in most states, including South Australia, but illegal in NSW unless it remains unassembled. Patrick had interstate clients to whom he occasionally sold crossbow arrows, "So I thought, 'You know what, I'll bring in four crossbows.' "
He thought he might "muck around with them", do some target shooting on friends' farms interstate. "If I store them in NSW I'm sure no one's going to be fussed," he said to himself.
Meanwhile,
Alex was hassling him. Please, he asked Patrick, can you assemble my crossbow? "We're friends now, you know me, I'll have problems doing it."
Alex was an undercover police officer. In early 2011, police raids on the Jacobs' home and business also uncovered a slingshot (which are illegal in NSW but can be used in some states) and an unlicensed rifle: Patrick says he was "just slack" in getting around to registering it.
After Patrick was sentenced on charges of possessing and selling prohibited weapons – a crossbow, slingshot and an unlicensed rifle – he collapsed.