A Cedar County man who shot his neighbor’s house over 60 times was sentenced today in federal court in Cedar Rapids to more than seven years in prison.
Randolph High, age 62, from Stanwood, Iowa, received the prison term after a May 30, 2019 guilty plea for being a felon in possession of ammunition.
In a plea agreement, High admitted that on Jan. 27, 2019, he shot his neighbor’s house over 60 times. The neighbor’s house, vehicles, and camper sustained dozens of bullet impacts. The Cedar County Sheriff’s Office searched High’s home and found magazines for firearms, numerous.22 caliber rounds of ammunition, and 71 expended shell casings for a.22 caliber firearm.
High was sentenced in Cedar Rapids by United States District Court Judge C.J. Williams. High was sentenced to 92 months’ imprisonment. He was ordered to make $34,350 in restitution to his neighbor and their insurance company for the damage he caused to their house, vehicles, and other property. He must also serve a three-year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Patrick J. Reinert and was investigated by the Cedar County Sheriff’s Office, Iowa State Patrol, and the Muscatine County Sheriff’s Office with the assistance of the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN). PSN is the centerpiece of the Department of Justice’s violent crime reduction efforts. PSN is an evidence-based program proven to be effective at reducing violent crime. Through PSN, a broad spectrum of stakeholders work together to identify the most pressing violent crime problems in the community and develop comprehensive solutions to address them. As part of this strategy, PSN focuses enforcement efforts on the most violent offenders and partners with locally based prevention and reentry programs for lasting reductions in crime.
Court file information at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl.
The case file number is 19-CR-00033.
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Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
