Alabama Man with Gun who Fled and Crashed into Police Car Sentenced to Federal Prison

A man who possessed a firearm as a felon was sentenced today to two years in federal prison.

Chrishawn Lloyd Stuckey, age 43, from Birmingham, Alabama, received the prison term after a February 7, 2025 guilty plea to one count of possession of a firearm by a felon.

Evidence at the sentencing hearing showed that Stuckey was intoxicated while at a Wal-Mart in Waterloo, Iowa.  He left the store and drove erratically.  When a law enforcement officer attempted to stop his car, Stuckey refused to pull over.  Stuckey instead got onto an on-ramp to the highway.  Officers used a car maneuver to force Stuckey to stop.  Stuckey then put his car in reverse and backed up into a squad car, damaging it.  Officers found a loaded stolen firearm in Stuckey’s car.  Stuckey has felony convictions for trafficking in stolen weapons and possession of a firearm by a felon.

Stuckey was sentenced in Cedar Rapids by United States District Court Chief Judge C.J. Williams.  Stuckey was sentenced to 24 months’ imprisonment and must also serve a 3-year term of supervised release after the prison term.  There is no parole in the federal system.

This case is part of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), a program bringing together all levels of law enforcement and the communities they serve to reduce violent crime and gun violence, and to make our neighborhoods safer for everyone. On May 26, 2021, the Department launched a violent crime reduction strategy strengthening PSN based on these core principles: fostering trust and legitimacy in our communities, supporting community-based organizations that help prevent violence from occurring in the first place, setting focused and strategic enforcement priorities, and measuring the results.

Stuckey is being held in the United States Marshal’s custody until he can be transported to a federal prison.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Devra T. Hake and investigated by the Waterloo Police Department, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.  

Court file information at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl.

The case file number is 24-CR-2017.

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