Local Man Pleads Guilty to Five Felony Charges

Antwyne Warren, a resident of St. Clair County, Illinois pled guilty in federal district court this morning to five felony charges including (1) conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and aiding and abetting; (2) attempted robbery; (3) using or carrying firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense and a crime of violence and aiding and abetting; (4) possession of a firearm by a convicted felon; and (5) possession of heroin, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Warren was ordered held without bond pending sentencing, which is scheduled for July 31, 2015, at 1:30 p.m. before the Honorable David R. Herndon, United States District Judge. Warren faces a minimum of ten years imprisonment on the conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and aiding and abetting count and a minimum of five years on the using or carrying firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense and a crime of violence and aiding and abetting count. By law, the sentences for these two offenses must run consecutively.

Court documents indicate that Warren, a convicted felon, agreed with two men to rob a drug stash house containing cocaine in July 2013. Warren and a codefendant brought loaded firearms with them to assist in the robbery. ATF agents, who had been investigating Warren’s and his codefendants’ plans to commit the robbery, arrested the three men in St. Louis. Following Warren’s arrest, a deputy at the St. Clair County Jail located heroin in Warren’s rectum.

The case was investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives and Assistant United States Attorney Monica A. Stump is prosecuting the case.