WICHITA – A 19-year-old Wichita man arrested in an ATF sting operation has been charged with 40 counts of violating federal firearms laws.

Keandre Johnson was charged in a superseding indictment with 16 counts of unlawful possession of a firearm after a felony conviction, 16 counts of unlawful possession of a firearm by a user of controlled substances, two counts of unlawful possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number, five counts of unlawful possession of a sawed off shotgun, one count of unlawful transfer of a sawed off shotgun, one count of distributing crack cocaine and one count of distributing marijuana.

Co-defendant Jeremy E. Love, 19, was charged with one count of unlawful possession of a firearm after a felony conviction and one count of unlawful possession of a firearm by a user of controlled substances.

The crimes are alleged to have occurred in 2011 in Sedgwick County. Johnson was one of 67- defendants first indicted in September as a result of an ATF sting operation in which agents posed as owners of a store called Bandit Trading.

If convicted on all the charges, Johnson faces a maximum penalty of 70-years in federal prison.