Georgia man accused of selling over 2 dozen guns, cocaine to undercover officer

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A three-month probe disrupted a Georgia-to-New York weapon trafficking pipeline and resulted successful the seizure of 25 guns, including 5 battle weapons, according to the United States Drug Enforcement Administration, which said the guns and a quantity of cocaine were sold to an undercover officer.

According to the DEA, the income of 25 guns occurred successful Manhattan connected 4 dates betwixt Sept. 3 and Nov. 12. It said that earlier each sale, Yamil Torres-Rincon, 24, traveled from Georgia to New York City. On aggregate occasions, the DEA said, helium drove with guns concealed wrong a hidden compartment successful his car.

In total, 20 handguns and 5 battle weapons were seized. The NYPD determined immoderate guns were stolen.

Torres-Rincon is facing galore charges, according to a transgression complaint, including transgression merchantability of firearms successful the archetypal degree, transgression merchantability of a firearm successful the 2nd degree, transgression possession of a limb successful the 3rd grade and transgression merchantability of a firearm successful the 3rd degree.

In immoderate parts of Jacksonville, weapon unit is simply a communal occurrence. News4Jax transgression and information adept Ken Jefferson says galore times, radical are charged with being a felon successful possession of a firearm due to the fact that they can’t legally acquisition a limb astatine a federally licensed weapon store, and truthful acquisition a firearm connected the achromatic market.

“They’re usually stolen oregon purchased from different felon oregon immoderate undercover idiosyncratic who is dealing successful weapons,” Jefferson said.

Federal and section instrumentality enforcement workers accidental guns and drugs spell hand-in-hand, often resulting successful convulsive outcomes connected the streets.

“Everyone progressive successful that benignant of enactment are ever armed, sometimes with an battle rifles,” Jefferson said.

And if a idiosyncratic with nefarious intentions has the money, helium oregon she tin get their manus connected conscionable astir immoderate limb they want. Something similar an AR-15 tin merchantability for astir $800 successful a store, but connected the achromatic market, it could fetch 3 times that amount.

Z. Farhat is the income manager astatine Green Acres Sporting Goods connected the Westside.

“Criminals volition wage a batch much than they are truly valued conscionable truthful they person them without papers oregon beryllium untraceable,” Farhat said.

At times, witnesses astatine Jacksonville transgression scenes volition archer News4Jax that they saw idiosyncratic firing an battle riffle.

“When you got this benignant of occurrence powerfulness connected the achromatic market, yes, that concerns instrumentality enforcement,” Jefferson said.

Farhat says determination is 1 suspicious acquisition that ever gets the attraction of national agents.

“If idiosyncratic is going to locomotion into a store and acquisition 10 of the aforesaid marque and model, that is going to beryllium a reddish flag,” helium said. “ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) volition apt travel up with that lawsuit and inquire what bash they request 10 of the aforesaid weapon for.”

Farhat says, unfortunately, guns that were utilized to perpetrate convulsive crimes successful Jacksonville person been traced backmost to his store, but truthful acold successful each case, the weapon was reported stolen from a customer’s location oregon car. Farhat says weapon traces person go precise common.

“We astir apt get 2 oregon 3 each period astatine least. Sometimes more. Any clip a weapon that ever near our store is utilized successful a crime, we get a trace,” helium said.

Last year, 522 guns were reported stolen from unlocked cars successful Jacksonville. On Monday night, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said that fig is higher truthful acold for 2021, saying that 582 firearms person been stolen successful car burglaries successful Jacksonville. It’s unclear what yet happened to those weapons.

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