Chicago Man Charged with Stealing a Handgun from a Cedar Rapids Gun Shop

Chicago Man Charged with Stealing a Handgun from a Cedar Rapids Gun Shop

The following press release was published by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys on Sept. 23, 2015. It is reproduced in full below.

Dante Glinn, age 22, from Chicago, Illinois, has been charged with one count of theft of a firearm from a licensed firearms dealer and one count of possession of a stolen firearm.­ The charges are contained in a Complaint filed on Aug. 28, 2015. Glinn was arrested in Chicago on Aug. 31, 2015, and made his initial appearance yesterday in United States District Court in Cedar Rapids.

The Complaint alleges that, on or about Aug. 25, 2015, Glinn entered the Sports Outfitters, a licensed firearms dealer located in Cedar Rapids, during business hours. As Glinn walked by a display case, he reached over the case, opened the door, removed a Kimber.45 caliber pistol, and then fled from the store with the pistol.

If convicted on all charges, Glinn faces a possible maximum sentence of twenty years’ imprisonment, a $500,000 fine, $200 in special assessments, and six years of supervised release following any imprisonment.­

Glinn appeared yesterday in federal court in Cedar Rapids and was held pending a detention hearing on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2015, at 8:00 a.m.

As with any criminal case, a charge is merely an accusation and a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.

The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney C.J. Williams and was investigated by the Cedar Rapids Police Department and the FBI Safe Streets Task Force. Court file informationavailable: https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl. The case file number is 15-mj-00276.

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Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys

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