A 20 -year -old Chula Vista man tracked up firearms and stole an federal infiltration agent under the threat of firearm was sentenced to more than 11 years in federal prison on Thursday.
Jonathan Manuel Flores met the infiltration agent to sell him a gun, then stole the money that the agent brought for the alleged sale of firearms, according to the office of the American prosecutor.
Prosecutors say that the purchase of firearms stems from an American alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives on un serialized “ghost cannons” and other weapons illegally modified.
As part of this survey, ATF Special Agents organized the sale of firearms, which took place on February 17, 2023, in the Walmart car park on Murphy Canyon Road in Serra Mesa.
Prosecutors say that the agent met Flores in a car. During the meeting, Flores pushed a firearm into the agent’s rib cage, asked that he will come out of the car “before smoking” and took the money, the prosecutors said.
The agent left the car and Flores left, but he was arrested later by the San Diego police.
Flores pleaded guilty last year for accusations of aggression against a federal officer with a deadly or dangerous weapon, brandishing a firearm to pursue a crime of violence and engaging in cases of treatment of firearms without a license. His advocacy agreement indicates that he and a co-accused sold firearms to the agents of ATF in civilian in at least five other occasions.
Flores was sentenced to 135 months in detention Thursday.
Originally published:
California Daily Newspapers
