The U-S Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa said Wednesday, that 48-year old Jaime Richard Schieffer, of Council Bluffs, was sentenced Tuesday in United States District Court in Council Bluffs, upon his conviction for possession of a sawed-off shotgun. United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt said Judge John A. Jarvey sentenced Schieffer to twenty four
months imprisonment, plus twenty four months of supervised release following his imprisonment, and imposed a $100.00 special assessment for the Crime Victim Fund. The Judge also ordered forfeiture of the shotgun and accompanying ammunition.Schieffer remains in the custody of the United States Marshal pending designation of the Federal Bureau of Prison facility at which he will serve his sentence.

Klinefeldt said on November 29th, 2011, an indictment was returned by the Federal Grand Jury for the Southern District of Iowa, charging Jaime Richard Schieffer with possession of a sawed-off shotgun. Schieffer appeared in Federal Court in Council Bluffs on April 5th, 2012, and pled guilty to the firearms charge.

The case against him was the result of an encounter on August 31st, 2011, in Council Bluffs, between Jaime Schieffer and an Iowa Highway Patrolman. The encounter ultimately led to the Trooper finding a sawed-off shotgun and shells at Schieffer’s residence. Both the stock and the barrel of the shotgun had been shortened.

The case was investigated by the Iowa State Patrol and the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. It was prosecuted by the United States Attorneys Office for the Southern District of Iowa.