United States of America v. Jonathan Leo Pope

COEUR D'ALENE, ID: Criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession of stolen firearms.



Jonathan Leo Pope, 25, of Lewiston, was with possession of stolen firearms.



On November 5, 2019, Pope entered the home of a Lewiston couple while they were away on vacation. During the burglary, Pope stole twelve firearms and coins. A day later, Lewiston Police detectives arrested Pope after identifying him as one of the burglars. Pope admitted to entering the home, stealing guns and coins, and helped officers recover the firearms. At the time of the burglary, Pope was prohibited from possessing firearms because of a 2015 conviction for possession of a controlled substance in Nez Perce County.



Multiple law enforcement agencies contributed to the successful prosecution of this case including the Nez Perce County Prosecutor's Office, Lewiston Police Department, Clarkston Police Department, Whitman County Sheriff's Office, and Asotin County Sheriff's Office, who are all part of the Quad Cities Drug Task Force, as well as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives who is not part of the task force but participates with it on a regular basis. The Quad Cities Drug Task Force is a multi-jurisdictional group of law enforcement officers working together to target drug trafficking in Lewiston and Moscow, Idaho, and Clarkston, Asotin, and Pullman, Washington.

Defendant was sentenced to 46 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release and to pay $5,800 in restitution.