CEDAR RAPIDS – A Cedar Rapids man who possessed a firearm while being a user of marijuana was sentenced March 11, 2020, to three years in federal prison.
Quincy Dionta Carrington, age 31, from Waterloo, Iowa, received the prison term after a December 2, 2019, guilty plea to possession of a firearm by a prohibited person.
Evidence at the plea hearing and sentencing showed that in January 2019, Waterloo police officers stopped Carrington for speeding. During the stop, officers learned Carrington had a suspended driver’s license. While taking Carrington into custody, Carrington admitted he had a loaded gun with him. Officers located a loaded gun under the driver’s seat of the vehicle; along with a vaping pen containing marijuana wax in the vehicle. Carrington admitted that he had been smoking the vaping pen earlier in the day and that he was on his way to scare an unknown male who had assaulted his girlfriend.
Carrington was sentenced in Cedar Rapids by United States District Court Chief Judge Leonard T. Strand. Carrington was sentenced to 36 months’ imprisonment. A $100 special assessment was imposed. He must also serve a 2-year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Ashley Corkery and investigated by the Waterloo Police Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
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.
