A 20-year-old Chula Vista man who was trafficking firearms and robbed an undercover federal agent at gunpoint was sentenced Thursday to greater than 11 years in federal jail.
Jonathan Manuel Flores met with the spy to promote him a gun, then stole the money the agent introduced for the purported firearm sale, in accordance with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Prosecutors say the gun buy stemmed from a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives investigation into the trafficking of unserialized “ghost weapons” and different illegally modified weapons.
As a part of that investigation, ATF particular brokers organized for the gun sale, which occurred on Feb. 17, 2023, within the car parking zone of the Walmart on Murphy Canyon Street.
Prosecutors say that the agent met with Flores inside a automotive and through the assembly, Flores pushed a gun into the agent’s ribcage, mentioned “Get the f- — out of the automotive canine earlier than I smoke you” and took the money.
The agent bought out of the automotive and Flores left, however he was later arrested by San Diego police.
Flores pleaded responsible final 12 months to expenses of assault on a federal officer with a lethal or harmful weapon, brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a criminal offense of violence, and fascinating within the enterprise of dealing firearms with no license. His plea settlement states that he and a co-defendant offered firearms to undercover ATF brokers on at the least 5 different events.
Flores was sentenced Thursday to 135 months in custody.
–Metropolis Information Service
