COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa – United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum announced that on Monday, June 4th, 42 year-old Raymond Stark, of Council Bluffs, was sentenced on a charge of being a Prohibited Person in Possession of a Firearm and Ammunition. Stark previously pleaded guilty to the charge on January 16th. Stark was sentenced to 27 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, with the federal prison sentence to run consecutively to the sentence Stark is serving for charges in the Iowa District Court in Pottawattamie County.

The 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 make our neighborhoods safer for everyone. The case was investigated by Council Bluffs Police Department and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and it was prosecuted by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa.