A violent offender with a history of gun crimes was sentenced last week to over 14 years in federal prison in connection to a crime spree last year that involved an armed carjacking and other gun crimes.
Cameron Davon Durand, 32, was sentenced to 170 months in federal prison for possession of a firearm as a felon in Minneapolis, and for discharging a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, namely, an armed carjacking in St. Paul, U.S. Attorney Daniel N. Rosen announced last week.
At the time of the offenses, Durand was serving a term of federal supervised release for a 2019 federal conviction for being a felon in possession of a firearm, for which he had been previously sentenced to 90 months in prison.
Durand pleaded guilty in December to two federal counts—and admitted to multiple supervised‑release violations stemming from the same violent conduct.
The sentence included 50 months for the felon-in-possession conviction and a consecutive mandatory minimum sentence of 120 months for discharging a firearm during the carjacking, for a total of 170 months in prison.
The court also imposed 30 months of imprisonment to run concurrent with the 170-month term, for Durand’s supervised-release violations.
The U.S. Attorney’s press release detailed facts contained in court documents which stated Durand, who was already a multi‑convicted felon, was just one month into federal supervised release for his prior firearms federal conviction when he committed a series of new gun crimes during the summer of 2025.
In June 2025, officers recovered a loaded 9mm firearm, with an attached red-dot sight, from his vehicle, later confirmed to contain Durand’s DNA. In the weeks that followed, Durand was captured on surveillance video firing another weapon in a densely populated St. Paul neighborhood outside a bar.
Then, on July 18, 2025, Durand brandished a firearm, carjacked an Uber driver—chasing him on foot, and firing a round at him as he ran for his life.
Durand fled from responding officers at high speed, abandoned the carjacked vehicle, and escaped on foot with a firearm in his hand. Inside the victim’s car, police recovered Durand’s backpack containing multiple forms of his identification and 9mm ammunition. A discharged 9mm casing found at the scene of the carjacking matched the ammunition inside Durand’s backpack.
“This sentence ensures that a dangerous and escalating menace is no longer free to terrorize our communities,” said United States Attorney Daniel N. Rosen. “Durand has demonstrated, repeatedly and over nearly two decades, that no term of supervision, no prior prison sentence, and no tragic personal history will deter him from armed violence. Today’s sentence protects the public and holds him accountable,” Rosen said.
Durand’s criminal history dating back to 2007 includes numerous felony convictions involving firearms, assaults, robbery, and gang‑related violence.
This case was the result of an investigation by the ATF, the Saint Paul Police Department, and the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office.
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