WATERLOO WOMAN TO FEDERAL PRISON FOR BEING FELON WITH FIREARM AND AMMUNITION
Contact: Peter Deegan
A woman who had a loaded handgun because she was upset with her daughter was sentenced today to more than one year in federal prison.
Delores Mosley, age 52, from Waterloo, Iowa, received the prison term after a September 16, 2010, guilty plea to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
Mosley was convicted of felony Second Degree Theft in Black Hawk County, Iowa, on June 12, 1989. On November 15, 2009, Waterloo police officers were notified that Mosley had a gun and was threatening to kill her daughter. Officers found Mosley and seized a loaded .32 caliber revolver from her coat pocket. Mosley told officers she was frustrated with her daughter for neglecting Mosley’s granddaughter and said she brought her daughter into the world and she could take her out.
Mosley was sentenced in Cedar Rapids by United States District Court Chief Judge Linda R. Reade. Mosley was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment, and a special assessment of $100. She must also serve a two-year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system.
Mosley was released on the bond previously set and is to surrender to the Bureau of Prisons on a date yet to be set.
This case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Bob Teig as part of Project Safe Neighborhoods, a cooperative local, state, and federal program aimed at the enhanced prosecution of gun crimes. The case was investigated by the Waterloo Police Department.
Court file information is available at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl. The case file number is CR 10-2029.
