Convicted Domestic Abuser Sent to Prison for Making False Statements During Attempted Purchase of a Firearm

A Hancock County man was sentenced July 23, 2024, to two and one-half years in federal prison for making three false statements in attempt to purchase a firearm.

Trevor Kent Hueneman, age 26, from Garner, Iowa, received the prison term after a February 20, 2024, guilty plea to making false statements during the purchase of a firearm.

In a plea agreement, Hueneman admitted that on or about July 21, 2022, he went to EzPawn in Mason City, Iowa, and attempted to purchase a Glock.40 caliber S&W pistol that he had previously pawned at the store. Hueneman filled out the standard ATF form 4473 and marked he had not been previously convicted of a felony crime, he had not been convicted of a crime of misdemeanor domestic violence and he was not subject to a court order restraining him from harassing, stalking, or threating an intimate partner, all three statements were false.

Hueneman was sentenced in Sioux City by United States District Court Judge Leonard T. Strand. Hueneman was sentenced to 30 months' imprisonment and ordered to pay a $100 special assessment. He must also serve a two-year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system.

Hueneman was released on the bond previously set and is to surrender to the Bureau of Prisons on a date yet to be set.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Kraig R. Hamit and investigated by Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tabacco, Firearms and Explosives.

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

The case file number is 23-CR-3017.

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