Tinley Man Gets 11 Years After Selling Guns, Drugs To Feds

TINLEY PARK, IL — A Tinley Park man who called himself a "one-stop shop" for drugs and guns has been sentenced to more than 11 years in federal prison, authorities said.

Antoine Jackson, 42, sold heroin, three guns and ammunition to an informant for $6,565 in 2017, and later sold the same informant $4,500 worth of heroin, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois.

Jackson pleaded guilty last year to one count of dealing firearms without a license, one count of distribution of a controlled substance and one count of using and carrying a firearm during a drug trafficking crime. U.S. District Judge Ronald A. Guzman handed down the sentence May 23.

As part of the plea, Jackson admitted that he sold heroin and guns to the informant three times in June 2017. Two deals occurred at Jackson’s house in Tinley Park, while a third was held in a Tinley forest preserve. During the deal in the forest preserve, Jackson showed the informant a gun that was tucked in Jackson’s waistband. He also said he sold the informant heroin in December 2017 and March 2018. The latter deal occurred in the parking lot of a restaurant in Oak Forest.

The guns Jackson sold included an AK-47 rifle and two handguns, with extended magazines for each of them. It was during one of Tinley Park deals that Jackson referred to himself as a “one-stop shop” for firearms and narcotics.

Records show he is being held at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago.