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Thompson drew 30 months on a federal felon-in-possession plea. Supervised release is not time served.
On Sept. 16 in Sioux City, Thompson was sentenced to 30 months plus three years of supervised release on a felon-in-possession plea. The April 28 plea already resolved the count.
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A federal sentence after a guilty plea is a judgment on that count. It is not a new trial on the traffic stop, and supervised release is a separate condition, not time served. On Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2026, in Sioux City, U.S. District Judge Leonard T. Strand sentenced Bobb’e J. Thompson, 30, of Kansas City, Mo. — the That’s So Raven, Wild ’N Out, and Role Models actor — to 30 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release. He pleaded guilty on April 28, 2026, to illegal possession of a firearm by a felon. The plea resolved that count. The Wednesday number is the sentence on it.
The file started with a Sept. 22, 2025 traffic stop in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa. Reporting said the vehicle was clocked at 104 in a 70, occupants switched seats, and officers noted a marijuana odor. A search, as reported, found dispensary marijuana and a loaded stolen.40-caliber handgun — a 15-round magazine plus a chambered round — in a backpack that had been reported stolen from a Kansas City vehicle. Those are the stop and search facts the government put on the record. They were not retried on Wednesday. A sentencing hearing is not a suppression hearing, and it is not a new trial on how the gun got into the bag.
Prosecutors noted 2020 battery and assault convictions and a 2022 prohibited-firearm-possession case as prior history. Priors can matter at sentencing. They are not a new Iowa verdict. There is no parole in the federal system. Thompson is in U.S. Marshals custody pending transfer.
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