Chicago area man with ‘arsenal’ of guns for drug trafficking gets 10 years in prison

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.

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