A Minneapolis man who terrorized a St. Paul Uber driver during a summer 2025 crime spree is headed to federal prison for more than 14 years.
Cameron Davon Durand, 32, a repeat violent offender, was sentenced on June 22, 2026 to 170 months in federal prison, just over 14 years, after admitting he fired a gun during an armed carjacking in St. Paul. Prosecutors say the carjacking was part of a broader wave of crimes and took place barely a month into Durand’s federal supervised release for an earlier firearms conviction.
U.S. District Judge Donovan W. Frank handed down the sentence after Durand pleaded guilty on December 17, 2025 to two federal counts and admitted multiple supervised-release violations. The court imposed 50 months for the felon-in-possession conviction and a consecutive 120-month mandatory minimum for discharging a firearm during the carjacking. The judge also ordered an additional 30 months for supervised-release violations, to run concurrently, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Minnesota.
According to court records and surveillance footage, officers recovered a loaded 9mm handgun with a red-dot sight from Durand’s vehicle in June 2025 and later captured him on video firing a different gun in a densely populated St. Paul neighborhood. On July 18, 2025, Durand allegedly pulled a firearm, carjacked an Uber driver, chased the driver on foot, and fired a shot as the victim ran away. Investigators say he then fled, ditched the stolen car, and escaped on foot. Police later found Durand’s backpack inside the victim’s vehicle, containing multiple forms of identification and 9mm ammunition, and a discharged casing recovered at the scene matched that ammunition, as reported by Alpha News MN.
Federal authorities did not mince words in describing Durand’s impact on the Twin Cities.
“This sentence ensures that a dangerous and escalating menace is no longer free to terrorize our communities,” U.S. Attorney Daniel N. Rosen said in announcing the sentence. “Durand is a violent offender, and he has been for a long time,” Assistant Special Agent in Charge Spence Burnett of the ATF St. Paul Field Division added in the same release from the U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Minnesota.
Federal Firearm Law Adds A 10-Year Minimum
Durand’s sentence jumped significantly because of a federal statute that piles extra time onto violent crimes committed with guns. Under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A)(iii), a ten-year mandatory minimum sentence applies when a firearm is discharged during the commission of a crime of violence, and that time must run consecutively to any other sentence, according to Cornell Law School’s Legal Information Institute.
Durand’s criminal history dates back to 2007 and includes multiple felony convictions involving firearms, assaults, robbery, and alleged gang-related violence. The case was investigated by the ATF, the Saint Paul Police Department, and the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office, and was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Benjamin Bejar, as reported by Alpha News MN.
