Aurora gang member pleads guilty to gun charges

An Aurora street gang member has pleaded guilty to unlawfully firing and selling a handgun.

Jose Sanchez, 20, 2900 block of Forest Avenue, on Friday agreed to a sentence of 9 years in prison in exchange for a guilty plea to unlawful possession of a firearm by a street gang member, a Class 2 felony, and unlawful delivery of a firearm, a Class 4 felony, and reckless discharge of a firearm, a Class 4 felony.

Kane County Associate Judge Robert Villa accepted the plea.

Kane County prosecutors presented evidence that at about 5:20 p.m. Feb. 4, 2015, while outside a home in the 500 block of East Downer Place in Aurora, Sanchez fired a .32 caliber Iver-Johnson revolver multiple times.
Later that day, Sanchez sold the gun to a confidential police informant, prosecutors said. Sanchez was a member of a street gang at the time, officials said.