Lang
6/28/25
An Iowa City man has been sentenced to a decade in federal prison for possessing a firearm and ammunition as a felon.
29-year-old O’Sean Horton was sentenced on Thursday to 120 months behind bars. According to public court documents and evidence presented at sentencing, in December of 2020 Horton possessed two loaded pistols, a distribution quantity of marijuana, and drug paraphernalia within two backpacks found at his sister’s residence. In May of 2023, Horton was witnessed on surveillance video shooting at another person multiple times in an apartment complex parking lot in Coralville. Police say he left behind .40 caliber shell casings. Horton was on probation for failure to affix a drug tax stamp at the time he committed the offenses.
After completing his term of imprisonment, Horton will be required to serve a three-year term of supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system.
Horton was given a deferred judgement in 2014 after he and another then-teenager opened fire on one another near the Pheasant Ridge apartments on Bartelt Road in Iowa City. Neither person was injured, but a nearby apartment building was damaged. Horton pleaded guilty to charges of Carrying Weapons and Intimidation with a Dangerous Weapon.