A federal judge today sentenced a Chicago man to four years in prison for unlawfully supplying guns to a violent street gang.
CHICAGO — ANTHONY MORGAN, 32, was sentenced to 48 months in prison in federal court in Chicago for directing and paying for an acquaintance to purchase at least seven guns in New Mexico.
The weapons were shipped through the mail to Morgan’s residence in Chicago, where he supplied some of the guns to members of his violent street gang on the city’s South Side.
Law enforcement later tied two of the firearms to homicides, including the November 2015 murder of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee in Chicago’s Auburn Gresham neighborhood.
Morgan pleaded guilty earlier this year to a federal firearms conspiracy charge.
Assistant U.S. Attorney James P. Durkin argued in the government’s sentencing memorandum, ‘This is a case study in how illegal guns flood this district and terrorize our community.’
The sentence was announced by John R. Lausch, Jr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois; Timothy Jones, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago Field Division of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives; and Eddie Johnson, Superintendent of the Chicago Police Department.
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Key Facts
- State: Illinois
- Category: Violent Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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