A man from Chicago’s northwest suburbs was sentenced to 16 years in federal prison last week for trafficking drugs and guns after being apprehended in a sting a year and a half ago.
According to the US Attorney’s Office, Efrain Jacobo, 44, sold methamphetamine, cocaine, and seven weapons in a series of transactions in Joliet in the fall of 2024. According to authorities, Jacobo was unaware that the sales were part of a sting operation with undercover law enforcement officials as buyers.
On December 17, 2024, Jacobo supplied monitoring data with people he had no idea were undercover investigators for a vehicle carrying meth from Illinois to Texas, prosecutors said. Prosecutors say Jacobo directed the vehicle to halt at a shipping facility in Bolingbrook, Illinois.
Investigators investigated the truck and discovered more than 150,000 grams of meth, according to prosecutors. Prosecutors reported finding over 1,800 grams of fentanyl in Jacobo’s leased storage facility in Wheeling. “Defendant was clearly a powerful and high-level drug dealer,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephanie C. Stern stated in the government’s sentencing argument, according to a news release. “Drug dealers of any illegal narcotic have a negative impact on society.” They contribute to a drug trade that may damage lives, families, and communities.
Jacobo of Prospect Heights pleaded guilty earlier this year to federal weapons and narcotics crimes, according to prosecutors. He was sentenced to 16 years in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Matthew F. Kennelly last Thursday.
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