EAST ST. LOUIS • A teen from Centralia, Ill., faces charges in federal court here accusing him of stealing 39 guns with the thought of selling them to Ferguson protesters, according to court documents.

Dakota R. Moss, 19, told investigators that after a store burglary Nov. 29, he and a juvenile accomplice, 17, discussed traveling to Ferguson. They also allegedly had plans to loot Ferguson stores, although local police called it just “big talk.”

The two used a pickup stolen from a high school in Centralia to ram security gates of a Buchheit farm and home store, according to an affidavit by Special Agent Adam Ulery of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Centralia is about 60 miles east of St. Louis.

They allegedly made three trips to the store to haul off 29 pistols, nine rifles and a shotgun.

Centralia police Lt. Greg Dodson said the burglary occurred at the tail end of a two-day “crime spree” by Moss, who allegedly had stolen multiple vehicles from two different locations. Dodson said the two had no connections in Ferguson.