Cameron Treon Banks, a 30-year-old from Trenton, Tennessee, was sentenced on Apr. 2 to 240 months in federal prison for illegally possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, according to D. Michael Dunavant, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee.
The sentencing follows an incident in December 2021 when Banks was found with five firearms, over 380 grams of methamphetamine, marijuana, and cash at a residence in Bradford. Authorities said Banks was already serving probation for two aggravated assault convictions from earlier that year and had another similar conviction from 2016.
After pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm under federal law, Senior United States District Judge J. Daniel Breen determined that Banks qualified as an Armed Career Criminal due to his three prior aggravated assault convictions. Judge Breen imposed the maximum sentence allowed by law—20 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release—with no possibility of parole under the federal system.
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.”
The case involved multiple agencies including the Gibson County Sheriff’s Office, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (ATF), and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Assistant United States Attorney Josh Morrow prosecuted the case.
