A Galesburg man on the hook for gun and drug charges following a 2014 raid into six homes on the eastern end of town has pleaded guilty to a federal gun charge.
The Illinois Central District Court in Peoria says 44-year-old Freddie Collins Jr. pleaded guilty yesterday to using, carrying or possessing a firearm in relation to drug trafficking.
The federal charge could spell life imprisonment. Charges of cocaine and heroin possession and possession of a firearm were dropped.
Local charges of armed violence, delivery of 15 to 100 grams of cocaine and heroin and possession of a firearm by a felon were dropped in Knox County Circuit Court last December.
The charges stem from a series of drug raids carried out in October of 2014 by the Peoria Multi-County Narcotics Enforcement Group, Galesburg police and other agencies.
Collins is scheduled for sentencing at 1:15 p.m. May 4 before U.S. District Judge Joe Billy McDade.
