A 20-year-old Chula Vista man who was trafficking firearms and robbed an undercover federal agent at gunpoint was sentenced Thursday to more than 11 years in federal prison.
Jonathan Manuel Flores met with the undercover agent in order to sell him a gun, then stole the cash the agent brought for the purported firearm sale, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Prosecutors say the gun purchase stemmed from a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives investigation into the trafficking of unserialized “ghost guns” and other illegally modified weapons…