CEDAR RAPIDS — A Waterloo man was sentenced Wednesday in federal court to over three years in prison for unlawfully having a gun and ammunition as a convicted felon.Wayne J. Jones, II, 38, pleaded guilty last October in U.S. District Court to one count of unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon and unlawful drug user.Evidence during sentencing showed that Jones had multiple firearms in his Waterloo apartment and fired those guns at an outdoor shooting range. Last year, FBI agents executed a federal search warrant at Jones’s apartment in April. At that same time, Jones’s brother, Joseph Jones, was charged in the Northern District of Illinois with providing material support to ISIS. Those charges are pending.Jones admitted he was a daily user of marijuana when the search was conducted last year, according to evidence at the sentencing hearing.
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Trish Mehaffey, The Gazette (Cedar Rapids)
Thu, 05/10/2018 - 10:00am
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