Was Wanted in Illinois for Assault Charges and Probation
Violations
A Waterloo man who possessed a firearm in a car in Waterloo
in June 2018 was sentenced May 15, 2019, to nearly two years in federal prison.
Dereon Equwan Davenport, age 20, from Waterloo, Iowa,
received the prison term after a November 8, 2018, guilty plea to possessing a
firearm as a drug user.
Evidence at sentencing showed that Davenport was driving a
car in Waterloo on June 3, 3018, when the Waterloo Police Department stopped
him for a traffic violation. When
officers approached the vehicle, they smelled marijuana. During a search of the car, officers found an
unloaded German .22 caliber revolver and marijuana in the front center
console. At the time, Davenport was
wanted in Winnebago County, Illinois, for probation violations arising out of
an incident in which Davenport was found with dealer-quantity hydrocodone and
other prescription pills at a school.
There was also a warrant outstanding for Davenport’s arrest in Madison
County, Illinois, after Davenport tried to punch his counselor with a closed
fist and threatened to return to his health care provider’s place of business
with a gun to “shoot the place up.”
Davenport was sentenced in Cedar Rapids by United States
District Court Judge C.J. Williams.
Davenport was sentenced to 21 months’ imprisonment. He must also serve a three-year term of
supervised release after the prison term.
There is no parole in the federal system.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Neighborhoods
(PSN). PSN is the centerpiece of the
Department of Justice’s violent crime reduction efforts. PSN is an evidence-based program proven to be
effective at reducing violent crime. Through PSN, a broad spectrum of
stakeholders work together to identify the most pressing violent crime problems
in the community and develop comprehensive solutions to address them. As part
of this strategy, PSN focuses enforcement efforts on the most violent offenders
and partners with locally based prevention and reentry programs for lasting
reductions in crime.
Davenport was is being held in the United States Marshal’s
custody until he can be transported to a federal prison.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney
Tim Vavricek and investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the
Waterloo Police Department.
Court file information at
https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl.
The case file number is 18-CR-2055.
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