The Brief
- A Mount Prospect man was sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for illegal gun possession and drug trafficking.
- Federal prosecutors said Omari Andrews Jr. had an “arsenal” of guns to “protect his drug trafficking activities.”
- He also had multiple prior convictions for drug trafficking, prosecutors said.
CHICAGO – A suburban man was sentenced to more than a decade in prison for illegally possessing multiple guns and trafficking fentanyl and other drugs, federal prosecutors said.
What we know:
Omari Andrews Jr., of Mount Prospect, was convicted of having an AR-15-style gun, three handguns while trafficking fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, crack cocaine, and marijuana, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of Illinois.…