Schaumburg man among four accused of gun trafficking

A Schaumburg resident is among four men who were indicted Monday in a federal gun trafficking case.

According to a news release issued Wednesday by the U.S. attorney's office in Chicago, Schaumburg resident Rogelio Mancera, 26, St. Louis resident Jerome Boykin, 31, Chicago resident Rodolfo Ortega, 26, and Robert Narup, 71, of Washington, Missouri, are set to be arraigned Feb. 23 in Chicago. Each has been charged with dealing firearms without a license, which is punishable by up to five years in prison.

Additionally, Mancera and Boykin were charged with possessing a firearm while trafficking marijuana and face a minimum of five years in prison and a maximum life sentence if convicted, authorities said.

Ortega also is accused of illegally possessing firearms as a felon and could face up to 10 years in prison if he's convicted on that charge.

Authorities allege that Narup illegally purchased guns throughout the U.S. and sold them in St. Louis to Boykin, who in turn provided them to Mancera in exchange for marijuana.

Mancera then sold the guns to Ortega, who resold them on the streets of Chicago, according to the news release.