A man from Chicago’s northwest suburbs was sentenced to 16 years in federal prison last week for trafficking drugs and guns, after he was caught in a sting a year and a half ago.
The U.S. Attorney’s office said Efrain Jacobo, 44, sold methamphetamine, cocaine, and seven guns in a series of transactions in Joliet in the fall of 2024. Jacobo did not know the sales were a sting operation and the buyers were undercover law enforcement officers, prosecutors said.
On Dec. 17, 2024, Jacobo shared tracking data with the people he didn’t know were undercover officers for a truck full of meth that was headed from Illinois to Texas, prosecutors said. The truck stopped at a shipping facility in Bolingbrook, Illinois, at Jacobo’s direction, prosecutors said…