A convicted robber from Chicago's suburbs used his girlfriend to buy Glock pistols for him in Wisconsin, telling gun dealers he was a cop, the feds say.
Simione Dunn, 49, was on parole for attempted murder and armed robbery convictions. In 1998, according to court records, he slid on latex gloves and shot a man in the head during a holdup inThis year, from February to May, Dunn and 43-year-old girlfriend Sonya Brown went on a gun-buying spree in Wisconsin, according to an affidavit by a task force officer with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
On May 8, when authorities raided the Oak Park apartment where Brown and Dunn lived with her kids, Brown admitted she’d bought about 21 guns for Dunn, according to the ATF affidavit. She used a Wisconsin state ID with a fake address, authorities said.In a FOX 32 special report, Anthony Ponce looks at how the gun tracing process works and how it’s changing.
Another time, the same man accompanied Brown and handed the dealer a business card with an email address that included the words "money is power." Brown told authorities she put the guns in the trunk of her Ford Escape and Dunn would drive around selling them in Chicago, the affidavit said.On a national level, straw-purchasing cases are a priority for the government. The bipartisan federal Safer Communities Act that took effect last year created new specific federal criminal statutes banning straw purchases and gun trafficking — with harsh penalties of up to 15 years in prison.
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