Derrick Claiborne, 47, was sentenced to 15 years in prison in Chicago’s federal court this month after prosecutors said law enforcement found narcotics and three illegal firearms inside his penthouse apartment on Michigan Avenue.
A Chicago man who pleaded guilty to drug and gun charges has been sentenced to 15 years in prison in a case federal prosecutors said has shut down a Missouri-to-Chicago firearms pipeline.Derrick Claiborne, 47, was sentenced in Chicago’s federal court this month after prosecutors said law enforcement found narcotics and three illegal firearms inside his penthouse apartment on Michigan Avenue.
Claiborne is one of four people convicted as part of an ATF-led investigation, which revealed Claiborne had purchased three additional firearms from James Saunders after those weapons had been transported from Missouri to Saunders’ Woodlawn neighborhood home. ATF investigators then observed Claiborne drive to Saunders’ apartment building, before Saunders entered Claiborne’s vehicle carrying “a large white bag,” according to prosecutors. When Saunders exited the vehicle less than a minute later, he was no longer carrying the bag, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors said that in addition to the firearms he sold to Claiborne, Saunders also sold multiple firearms to confidential informants who were cooperating with law enforcement. He previously pleaded guilty and was sentenced in 2019 to five years in federal prison.
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