Sioux City, Iowa — A northwest Iowa man has pleaded guilty to a federal firearms charge.
The US Attorney’s Office says 29-year-old Taxavier Ford of Alta entered the plea this week in U.S. District Court to one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Ford had previously been convicted of possession of a narcotic drug in Indiana in 2017 and possession of marijuana with intent to deliver and possession of a firearm in Buena Vista County in 2021.
Evidence at a plea hearing revealed that Storm Lake police pulled over a vehicle he was driving in March of this year for tinted windows. An officer reported smelling marijuana, resulting in a search that turned up a firearm in the waistband of Ford’s pants.
Sentencing is pending completion of a pre-sentence report.
The case was investigated by Storm Lake Police and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
(Courtesy fellow Community First Broadcasting station KUOO in Spirit Lake)
