Dubuque Man Who Distributed Fentanyl Resulting in an Overdose Sentenced to Federal Prison

A man who sold fentanyl pills and possessed a firearm as a prohibited person was sentenced today to more than five years in federal prison.

Jonathan Luna, age 29, from Dubuque, Iowa, received the prison term after a June 20, 2024 guilty plea to one count of possession of a firearm as a prohibited person and one count of distribution of a controlled substance.

Evidence at the plea and sentencing hearings showed that, in April 2023, Luna distributed pills that contained fentanyl to another person, which caused the person to suffer an overdose. About two weeks later, law enforcement officers searched Luna's residence and located a stolen pistol in his bedroom. Luna is a felon and was an unlawful user of methamphetamine at the time he possessed the firearm.

Luna was sentenced in Cedar Rapids by United States District Court Chief Judge C.J. Williams. Luna was sentenced to 63 months' imprisonment. He must also serve a three-year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system.

Luna is being held in the United States Marshal's custody until he can be transported to a federal prison.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Adam J. Vander Stoep and was also investigated as part of the Northern Iowa Heroin Initiative and the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) program of the United States Department of Justice through a cooperative effort of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, and the Dubuque Drug Task Force, comprised of the Dubuque Police Department and the Dubuque Sheriff's Office.

Court file information at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl.

The case file number is 23-CR-1030.

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