Chicago – Attorney General Kwame Raoul today announced that a suburban DuPage County man was sentenced to prison for selling unserialized firearms and a machine gun conversion device to an undercover investigator.
The Attorney General’s office prosecuted Jeffrey Levander, 43, of Hanover Park, Illinois, who was sentenced Tuesday by Judge Ann Celine O’Hallaren Walsh. Judge O’Hallaren Walsh sentenced Levander to three years in prison for the unlawful sale or delivery of an unserialized firearm; six years in prison for the unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon; six years in prison for the unlawful use of a weapon; three years in prison for the unlawful sale or delivery of a firearm; and three years in prison for the unlawful possession of a firearm without a FOID card. Levander’s sentences will run concurrently.
“My office will not stop working to hold individuals accountable for making our communities less safe by selling devices that have been used to evade regulation and inflict as much carnage as possible,” Raoul said. “Partnerships with federal and state law enforcement entities are crucial as we continue our work to reduce gun violence in all of its forms.”
Levander agreed to sell two unserialized firearms, a machine gun conversion device and a spring-loaded knife to an undercover investigator in three separate sales in suburban Cook and DuPage counties. A machine gun conversion device makes a semi-automatic firearm capable of fully-automatic fire.
According to Attorney General Raoul’s office, Levander sold the undercover investigator a Glock 43 model clone, a Glock 17 model clone, and a machine gun conversion device for Glock platform pistols and spring-loaded knife.
Attorney General Raoul has persistently advocated at the federal and state levels to strengthen regulations of 3D-printed guns and ghost guns. Illinois law now prohibits ghost guns, but the office continues to fight in federal court to help defend a rule closing the federal loophole. Meanwhile, the Attorney General’s office also defends cases pending in courts across the state challenging Illinois’ regulations of firearms. Nationally, Attorney General Raoul successfully filed and resolved a lawsuit to get the federal firearm license of an unscrupulous arms manufacturer revoked.
Deputy Bureau Chief Andrew Whitfield and Assistant Attorney General Thomas Darman prosecuted the case for Raoul’s Statewide Grand Jury Bureau.
