Explosives, Machine Gun, Send Felon Back To Federal Prison
Contact: Peter Deegan
A Sioux City man was sentenced September 7, 2011, to over three years in federal prison for his illegal possession of firearms and ammunition, a machine gun, and explosives.
Terry Hunter, age 55, of Sioux City, Iowa, received his prison term after a June 14, 2011, guilty plea to being: a felon in possession of a firearm, a felon in possession of an explosive, and two charges related to his illegal possession of a machine gun. Hunter had a number of prior convictions, including a federal felony for distributing cocaine in 1981 in the Northern District of Iowa. This felony conviction precluded Hunter from lawfully possessing any firearms, ammunition, or explosives.
Information provided by the United States at the sentencing and change of plea hearings revealed that Hunter was a drug user and drug "sharer," who, on January 27, 2011, in his Sioux City, Iowa home illegally possessed a Sten 9 millimeter machine gun, other long guns, handguns, 23.8 grams of marijuana, eight drug pipes, two drug scales, drug notes, directions for making methamphetamine, a bag containing spoons and baggies, 282 – 9 millimeter rounds of ammunition, 1,198 other assorted rounds of ammunition, and seven sweating sticks of dynamite.
Hunter was sentenced in Sioux City by United States District Court Judge Mark W. Bennett. Hunter was sentenced to 42 months’ imprisonment. A special assessment of $100 was imposed. He must also serve a three-year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system.
Hunter was released on the bond previously set and is to surrender to the United States Marshal on a date yet to be set.
Court file information is available at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl. The case file number is 11-4010.
The case is 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 Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives; Homeland Security Investigations; the Tri-State Drug Task Force; the State Fire Marshal’s Office; the Woodbury County Sheriff’s Office; the Sioux City Police Department; the Sioux City Fire Department; and the Sioux City Fire Marshall’s Office. The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Forde Fairchild.
