United States of America v. Cameron Treon Banks

Jackson, Tennessee criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with unlawful transportation of firearms.

The Defendant was found guilty and was sentenced to 240 months custody of BOP, 5 years supervised release, no fine, $100.00 special assesment.

In December 2021, Cameron Treon Banks, 30, of Trenton, Tennessee, was found in possession of five firearms, 387 grams of methamphetamine, 10 grams of marijuana, and $1,282 in U.S. currency at a residence in Bradford, Tennessee. The investigation revealed that Banks is a convicted felon and was serving a 10-year period of supervised probation for committing two separate aggravated assault offenses in Gibson County in 2021. Banks was also previously convicted of another aggravated assault offense in Gibson County in 2016.

Following his guilty plea to being a felon in possession of a firearm in violation of federal law, Senior United States District Judge J. Daniel Breen determined that Banks qualified as an Armed Career Criminal (ACC) offender based on Banks’s three prior aggravated assault convictions. Judge Breen ultimately sentenced Banks to 240 months in prison and five years of supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system.

U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant said, "Banks has devoted his adult life to a career of violent criminal conduct, and that prior history has finally caught up with him. ACC+guns+drugs = a federal sentence that will finally remove him from the community and make Gibson County and West Tennessee a safer place."

This case was investigated by members of the Gibson County Sheriff’s Office, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives, and the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Assistant United States Attorney Josh Morrow prosecuted this case on behalf of the government.