Following his February guilty plea to a federal gun charge, a Galesburg man was sentenced to five years in prison yesterday.
Freddie Collins Jr. previously pleaded guilty to carrying and possession of a firearm during and in relation to the furtherance of drug trafficking.
U.S. District Judge Joe Billy McDade sentenced the 44 year old in the Illinois Central District Court of Peoria.
In exchange for his plea, federal charges of possession of cocaine and heroin with intent to distribute and possession of a firearm were dropped.
Additionally, Knox County charges of armed violence, delivery of 15 to 100 grams of cocaine and heroin and possession of a firearm were dropped when the federal case was opened.
The local charges stem from a series of drug raids in 2014 carried out by the Peoria Multi-County Narcotics Enforcement Group, Galesburg police and other agencies on the eastern end of Galesburg.
McDade also sentenced Collins to three years of parole.
