Repeat Felon Sentenced to More Than Seven Years in Prison for Illegal Possession of Ammunition

MINNEAPOLIS - A St. Paul man has been sentenced to 92 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for illegally possessing ammunition as a felon, announced United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger.

According to court documents, on July 18, 2023, officers with the St. Paul Police Department responded to a residence after receiving a 911-call reporting that several males with firearms were in and around an SUV parked near the residence. Officers learned that one of the males was Travis Howard Warner, 31, who had been involved in a St. Paul bar fight the night prior where he brandished a firearm with an extended magazine and threatened two people with the firearm during the fight. When officers arrived at the residence, Warner exited the SUV and began walking toward the side entrance of the residence, ignoring officers' commands to stop. Officers arrested Warner on an active felony warrant from a prior incident. Through the windows of the SUV, officers observed a firearm sticking out from under the driver's seat and a box of cash on the front passenger's seat. Law enforcement later obtained and executed a search warrant on the SUV and recovered, among other items, $3,157 in cash, a plastic bag containing 50 M30 fentanyl pills, and a ghost gun with an attached large-capacity magazine, loaded with 24 rounds of 9mm ammunition and with one round in the chamber. Warner could not be excluded from being a possible contributor to the DNA profile detected on the firearm and matched the DNA profile found on the bag containing the fentanyl pills.

Because Warner has multiple prior felony convictions in Ramsey and Dakota Counties, he is prohibited under federal law from possessing firearms or ammunition at any time.

On June 18, 2024, Warner pleaded guilty to one count of illegal possession of ammunition as a felon. He was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Judge Paul A. Magnuson.

This case was the result of an investigation conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the St. Paul Police Department.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Benjamin Bejar prosecuted the case.