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Cedar Rapids Drug User Sentenced To Prison For Buying Weapons

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(Cedar Rapids, IA) -- A Cedar Rapids drug-user who police say bought 31-firearms, most of which were for other people has been sentenced to five years in federal prison. Twenty-seven-year-old Chevelle Manuel Daudinot Jr., pleaded guilty to one count of possession of a firearm by an unlawful user of a controlled substance.

Investigators say Daudinot bought thirty-one firearms between August 2020 and April 2021, and falsely stated on the paperwork he was not an unlawful user of marijuana. On the paperwork for twenty-four of the firearms, Daudinot falsely stated the firearms were for himself when he was really buying them for other people. 

When law enforcement agents searched Daudinot’s residence in May 2021, he only had three of the firearms still in his possession. Daudinot’s cell phone contained text messages regarding his firearms dealing, including messages soliciting firearms from him, negotiating prices for firearms, and setting meetings to exchange firearms. Other text messages showed that, in addition to using marijuana, Daudinot was distributing marijuana.     

Investigators say four guns Daudinot bought were recovered during other criminal investigations. In April 2021, Chicago police officers recovered one from a car occupied by a felon and a minor. Through ballistics testing, the firearm was linked to a homicide that occurred in Chicago in March 2021 in which a victim died of three gunshot wounds. 

 Daudinot must also serve a three-year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system.

 


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