An Indiana man who would make trips to Chicago with a gym bag full of guns and sell them from a porch on the West Side could be sentenced to five years in federal prison after being convicted of illegally selling the weapons to gang members and felons, officials said Thursday.



Willie Lee Biles Jr., 44, was convicted by a jury in U.S. District Court in Chicago on Wednesday of willfully dealing firearms without a license, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.



Biles faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000, officials said. U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis scheduled a sentencing hearing for Nov. 16.



Officials said that in fall 2013, Biles made several trips on a Megabus to Chicago from his Indianapolis home. As he traveled each time he had a gym bag holding handguns, officials said. Officials said Biles bought more than 30 guns from licensed dealers in Indiana and brought them to Chicago to sell.



Once in Chicago, Biles would "sit on the porch of a residence on the city's West Side and sell firearms." According to a news release, Biles would sell the weapons for two to three times the price he paid for them in Indiana.



As he sold the guns, "Biles never asked any of his customers for identification, and he failed to verify whether they could legally possess firearms."



Officials said at least one of his customers was a convicted felon who could not legally possess a firearm. Officials said the buyers included gang members.



In court, prosecutors said seven of the firearms Biles sold were later recovered by law enforcement in the Chicago area.



Officials said the convicted felon to whom Biles sold four guns had previously been convicted in the case. The man, Otto Lewellen, of west suburban Bellwood, pleaded guilty last year to one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Lewellen admitted in a plea agreement that he bought four guns from Biles.



Police recovered two revolvers; Lewellen said he sold the two other guns to a man he knew only as "Red." Officials have not been able to locate Red or the two guns, according to the release.



Judge Ellis last year sentenced Lewellen to 18 months in federal prison.



The verdict in Biles' case was announced by Zachary Fardon, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, and Jeffery Magee, special agent in charge of the Chicago field division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the release says.