Cedar Rapids Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Possessing Fentanyl with the Intent to Distribute

A Cedar Rapids man who distributed pills containing fentanyl was sentenced June 30, 2025, to four years in federal prison.

Antonio Clarence Robertson, age 33, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, received the prison term after a January 16, 2025, guilty plea to possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance.

Evidence at the plea and sentencing hearings showed that on December 21, 2023, Cedar Rapids Police Department officers stopped a vehicle in which Robertson was a passenger.  During that traffic stop, officers observed him tucking an object underneath his person.  Officers ordered him out of the vehicle.  Robertson refused that order and officers removed him from the vehicle.  Officers observed an unlabeled pill bottle where he had been seated.  The unlabeled pill bottle contained fentanyl pills.  Officers searched Robertson and located multiple plastic bags containing additional pills.  As a result of the traffic stop, officers seized 227 pills containing fentanyl.  Prior to the traffic stop, officers believed they observed Robertson sell narcotics to another individual.  On December 22, 2023, Robertson met with investigators and admitted he sold fentanyl to another person.  

Robertson was sentenced in Cedar Rapids by United States District Court Chief Judge C.J. Williams.  Robertson was sentenced to 48 months’ imprisonment.    He must also serve a three-year term of supervised release after the prison term.  There is no parole in the federal system.

Robertson is being held in the United States Marshal’s custody until he can be transported to a federal prison.  The case was prosecuted by Special Assistant United States Attorney Michael S.A. Hudson and investigated by the Cedar Rapids Police Department.  Court file information at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl.  The case file number is 24-CR-31.

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