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Waterloo Man Sentenced to Over a Decade in Federal Prison for Unlawfully Possessing Firearms as a Felon

A 30-year-old man from Waterloo, Iowa, is headed to federal prison for over a decade after being convicted of unlawfully possessing a loaded handgun while awaiting sentencing on another federal firearms offense.

Shevin Caston, who was found guilty of possessing a firearm as a felon, was sentenced to 92 months in federal prison in Cedar Rapids by United States District Court Judge C.J. Williams. The prison term will be served consecutively to a sentence imposed in November 2019 for another felon in possession conviction, meaning Caston will serve a total sentence of more than 11 years in prison.

The court also ordered Caston to serve a three-year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system. Caston is currently being held in the United States Marshal’s custody until he can be transported to a federal prison.

The case was brought as part of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), 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.

Assistant United States Attorney Jake Schunk prosecuted the case, which was investigated by the Waterloo Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The case was brought to light after Caston was found to possess a loaded handgun while in the backseat of a car in Waterloo just six days prior to being sentenced in federal court on another felon in possession conviction.

Caston was sentenced in the case filed under 20-CR-2033-CJW-MAR, which is related to a previous matter involving the defendant, 19-CR-2032-CJW-MAR. The case file information is available at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl.

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