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Felon pleads guilty to illegal possession of firearm in Mille Lacs County case – Brainerd Dispatch

DULUTH – A federal jury found a Twin Cities man guilty of possession of a firearm as an armed career criminal.

On Monday, August 19, U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger reported that 36-year-old Jeremy Jantile Burton was found guilty on Friday of possession of a firearm as an armed career criminal.

According to evidence presented at trial, officers from the Mille Lacs Tribal Police Department were dispatched to a residence in Onamia on July 7, 2023, after receiving a 911 call about a suspected drug overdose.

Officers found Burton unconscious on the floor of a bedroom in the house and began resuscitation attempts.

After administering two doses of Narcan to Burton, officers moved him from the bedroom floor to a nearby mattress, where they noticed a pistol magazine sticking out of the pocket of his shorts.

To secure the crime scene for emergency personnel, officers retrieved the gun from Burton's pocket and also observed several drug paraphernalia in the bedroom.

Burton was taken by ambulance to Onamia Hospital and officers obtained a search warrant. A subsequent search of the residence found several controlled substances, including cocaine, methamphetamine and fentanyl, scales commonly used to weigh controlled substances, several items of drug paraphernalia and 36 rounds of 9mm ammunition.

Because Burton has been convicted of multiple serious crimes in Hennepin, Ramsey and Mille Lacs counties and the state of Georgia, including aggravated robbery, drug offenses and weapons possession, federal law prohibits him from possessing firearms or ammunition at any time.

After a three-day trial before Chief Judge Patrick J. Schiltz in U.S. District Court in Duluth, a jury found Burton guilty Friday of possession of a firearm as an armed career criminal. A sentencing hearing will be scheduled at a later date.

This case is the result of an investigation by the Mille Lacs Tribal Police Department, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Assistant U.S. Attorneys Andrew Dunne and Michael P. McBride represented the United States in court.

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