Marquis Square
Introduction
Marquis Square, a 32-year-old man from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was sentenced to 115 months in federal prison for possession of firearms by a convicted felon, in a case that began when Baker police officers responded to a disturbance call in September 2024 and ended with a shotgun under his car, a crashed vehicle, and a foot chase through the city. U.S. District Judge John W. deGravelles also imposed three years of supervised release and ordered the firearms involved forfeited .
Background Information
Per his own admissions as part of the guilty plea, Square was already a convicted felon when the September 2024 encounter took place, barred from possessing firearms or ammunition under federal law. His record, as the Justice Department release recites it, includes a 2015 East Baton Rouge Parish conviction for simple robbery and a 2024 conviction for attempted possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and taking contraband to and from penal institutions .
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Convicted and sentenced.
On September 4, 2024, officers with the Baker Police Department were dispatched to Lavey Lane in Baker, Louisiana, in reference to a disturbance possibly involving weapons. On arrival they encountered Square standing near a vehicle, and under that vehicle they found and recovered a pump shotgun. Once Square realized he was being detained, the release recounts, he resisted officers, ignored verbal commands, and fled in the vehicle .
Officers pursued him from Baker into Baton Rouge, where the vehicle crashed. Square then continued running on foot until he was captured behind a nearby residence. A subsequent search of the crashed vehicle yielded a black bag on the passenger seat containing a handgun and an extended magazine — a second firearm recovered from the same man the shotgun had been hidden under .
Public Reaction and Consequences
U.S. Attorney Kurt L. Wall praised the work of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, the Baker Police Department, and the Baton Rouge Police Department. The release records no public comment from Square or his defense. Assistant U.S. Attorney Will Morris, who also serves as the district’s Criminal Chief, led the prosecution .
The case was brought as part of Project Safe Neighborhoods, the Justice Department’s nationwide violent-crime initiative, and framed as a key component of Operation Take Back America, which the release describes as coordinating federal, state, and local responses to the most serious, readily provable offenses .
Current Status
Square is serving a 115-month federal prison term — just over nine and a half years — to be followed by three years of supervised release, and the firearms involved were ordered forfeited. The release records no appeal and no pending charges beyond the sentence imposed .
Impact on Their Career/Life
The 2024 case was Square’s second firearms conviction in two years, arriving on top of the 2015 robbery conviction that made the federal charge possible. At 32, the sentence carries him into his early forties before supervised release begins, and the forfeiture order strips him of the weapons police recovered on the day of the chase. A record that already included contraband and attempted-possession convictions now carries a near-decade federal term for doing precisely what its title records: possessing firearms as a convicted felon .
Sources
- U.S. Attorney’s Office, Middle District of Louisiana, “Convicted Felon Sentenced to 115 Months in Federal Prison for Possession of Firearms,” October 29, 2026 — source