Feds indict two Oak Parkers for straw rearms purchase One is a convicted felon

By STACEY SHERIDAN Senior Reporter

A 49-year-old Oak Park woman was charged in federal court with conspiring to straw purchase 18 firear ms out of state on behalf of a convicted felon. The felon, a man from Oak Park previously convicted for murder, was charged for possessing illegal firear ms

The woman, Sonya Brown, traveled to Wisconsin and purchased the weapons from licensed dealers at stores and gun shows earlier this year. Brown then falsely certified on federal for ms that she was a Wisconsin resident and the actual buyer of the guns, according to a release issued May 9 by the U.S. Attor ney’s Office for the Norther n District of Illinois.

Brown is alleged to have actually purchased the firear ms on behalf of 49-year-old Simone Dunn, with whom she lives in Oak

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Park. Dunn was out on parole from the mur der conviction at the time the firear ms were purchased. He has also been previously convicted of other felonies His status as a convicted felon bars him from legally owning a firear m.

Dunn and Brown were both arrested May 8. The charges were announced by Morris Pasqual, acting U.S. Attor ney for the Norther n District of Illinois, with Christopher Amon, special agent-in-charge of the Chicago Field Division of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firear ms and Explosives.

“Straw purchasers enable the unlawful possession of firear ms and the violence that too often follows,” Pasqual said in the re lease. “Our office is committed to stopping the flow of guns to individuals who cannot legally possess them.”

If convicted on the conspiracy charge, Brown could spend as many as five years in federal prison. The unlawful possession charge against Dunn is punishable by a maximum sentence of up to 10 years.