Dereon Equwan Davenport, Gun Possession, Iowa 2019

A 20-year-old Waterloo resident has been sentenced to nearly two years in federal prison after pleading guilty to possessing a firearm as a drug user. Dereon Equwan Davenport was handed down the 21-month prison term by United States District Court Judge C.J. Williams in Cedar Rapids on May 15, 2019.

In June 2018, Davenport was stopped by the Waterloo Police Department for a traffic violation while driving in Waterloo. Officers smelled marijuana and found an unloaded German .22 caliber revolver and marijuana in the front center console during a search of the car. 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.

A warrant was also 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.”

The case was brought as part of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), an evidence-based program aimed at reducing violent crime by partnering with locally based prevention and reentry programs.

Davenport must also serve a three-year term of supervised release after the prison term. The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Tim Vavricek and investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Waterloo Police Department.

Davenport is currently being held in the United States Marshal’s custody until he can be transported to a federal prison. The case file number is 18-CR-2055 and court file information is available at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl.

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