MASON CITY – A Waterloo man who escaped from a Waterloo halfway house and spent over two weeks on the lam was convicted after a half-hour bench trial in federal court in Cedar Rapids. Lonnel Porter, age 35, from Waterloo, Iowa, was convicted of one count of escape from custody. The verdict was returned on January 16, 2020.
The evidence at trial and prior court proceedings showed that, in 2009, Porter was convicted in federal court of possessing a firearm as a felon after an incident wherein he displayed an assault-rifle during a neighborhood dispute. At that time, Porter had prior convictions for burglary, domestic assault causing injury, and false imprisonment. Porter was sentenced in 2009 to nearly nine years in prison and three years of supervised release. In 2012, while an inmate in federal prison, Porter was sentenced to an additional two years of prison after assaulting a correctional officer and causing injury to the officer. When Porter was released from prison in 2019, he was required to spend time at a local halfway house, the Waterloo Residential Reentry Center (WRRC), with work-release privileges. On September 16, 2019, about six weeks after he arrived at the WRRC, Porter signed out for his job, left the WRRC, and never returned. When Porter’s probation officer called Porter on the telephone and instructed him to return to the WRRC, Porter refused to do so and would not reveal his location. On October 2, 2019, the United States Marshal’s Service arrested Porter, and Porter was returned to prison for 14 months for violating the terms of his supervised release.
Sentencing before United States District Court Judge C.J. Williams will be set after a presentence report is prepared. Porter remains in custody of the United States Marshal pending sentencing. Porter faces a possible maximum sentence of five years’ imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, and three years of supervised release following any imprisonment.
The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Tim Vavricek and was investigated by the United States Marshal’s Service.
In the article, it says,”he displayed an assault-rifle”. Well, yeah,NO. I wish the authors of these articles, and other liberals, would at least get their definitions right. For instance.
Definition of Assault rifle,is a military firearm that is chambered for ammunition of reduced size or propellant charge and that has the capacity to switch between semiautomatic and fully automatic fire.
Did you liberals notice some key words that your masters leave out? Like,”military firearm”,”capacity to switch between semiautomatic and fully automatic fire.”
OH, those pesky facts.
Liberals hate those darn things, they’re always gumming up the works.
You just hate the truth. How do you know it wasn’t the “military style” assault weapon you described?
Because he would have been charged for that as well you stupid liberal fag.
That would be an automatic rifle(fires more than once with one pull of the trigger) at that point. To have a “assault rifle”, means you have to have a special license that is very expensive. Now, without that license, you are going to go to federal prison for quite a few years.
Yes,they WILL post that as a charge. As they did not post the charge as having an automatic firearm, common sense tells me he didn’t have one.
What he most likely had, would be an AR-15, the civilian rifle that the military M-16 was based off of.
An AR-15 can be made to look like a military weapon, but is NOT a military rifle. It is semi automatic(one pull of the trigger fires once).