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Monday, October 29, 2018
Possession of Sawed-Off Shotgun Sends Dubuque Man to Federal Prison
Kept the Shotgun and Hidden Meth at his Home
A man who possessed an unregistered sawed-off shotgun and who was an unlawful user of methamphetamine was sentenced on October 26, 2018, to one year in federal prison.
Michael Dennison, age 41, from Dubuque, Iowa, received the prison term after a June 18, 2018, guilty plea to possession of an unregistered short-barreled shotgun.
In a plea agreement, Dennison admitted that he possessed the sawed-off shotgun from the summer of 2017 until February 16, 2018, when police officers seized it during a search warrant executed at his home. The gun was loaded. Sentencing documents indicate that officers also found methamphetamine hidden in a hole cut out from the Dennison’s mattress. Dennison also provided a urine sample that tested positive for methamphetamine.
Dennison was sentenced in Cedar Rapids by Chief United States District Court Judge Leonard T. Strand. Dennison was sentenced to twelve months and one day in prison. He must also serve a two-year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system.
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