Indianapolis, IN, Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon

BISMARCK – United States Attorney Mac Schneider announced that on September 5, 2024, United States District Court Judge Daniel L. Hovland sentenced Anthony Lee Davis, age 32, of Indianapolis, IN, to serve 110 months in federal prison and serve three years supervised release for the offense of Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon.

On April 16, 2024, Davis pleaded guilty to Count One of an Indictment charging him with the offense of Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon. Evidence introduced during a July 23, 2024, evidentiary hearing established that, on October 23, 2021, Davis possessed a 9mm pistol and discharged this firearm at people and property while driving a vehicle erratically around Minot, ND. Additionally, unprovoked, Davis fired this pistol at an individual who was driving in a nearby vehicle, with two bullets from Davis’s firearm hitting the driver’s side door of the vehicle and one bullet striking the individual who was driving the vehicle in the left elbow. After Davis shot this individual, he crashed the vehicle that he was driving, fled the vehicle on foot, and continued possessing the firearm until he was arrested by members of the Minot Police Department. When law enforcement searched the crashed vehicle, they located multiple spent shell casings and at least one live round of ammunition.

“This strong sentence is a fair one considering the defendant’s reckless violence and actions putting the public in harm’s way,” Schneider said. “We are grateful to our partners at the Minot Police Department and in federal law enforcement for bringing this defendant to justice. As this case shows, the United States Attorney’s Office will be absolutely unsparing when it comes to making federal defendants out of felons who illegally possess firearms.”

This case was investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, United States Marshals Service and the Minot Police Department and prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Jonathan J. O’Konek.

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