CHICAGO (AP) - Three suspects face federal charges in Chicago in a theft of 20 firearms that involved crashing a stolen Jeep into a gun store.
A U.S. attorney’s office statement Wednesday says the trio smashed glass displays once inside South Post Guns in Streator, a small community 80 miles southwest of Chicago. They allegedly made off with 18 handguns, one rifle and a shotgun in last year’s theft.
The indictment says the evidence includes online videos of the men clutching the stolen weapons.
Twenty-one-year-old Romeo Blackman, 22-year-old Rashad Anchando and 27-year-old Keith Gullens are charged with conspiring to steal firearms and several related counts. Blackman and Anchando live in Chicago; Gullens from Streator. The conspiracy charge carries a maximum five-year prison term.
Court records don’t include their lawyers. Arraignments are in mid-June.
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