U.S. authorities say they have charged more than 100 people with federal gun and drug crimes in separate blitzes in three states.
This image provided by U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York, shows semi-automatic handguns seized in undercover transactions in the Canarsie neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York. Four men charged Wednesday, Jan 11, 2023, under a new federal gun trafficking law are accused of selling more than 50 guns to an undercover officer, along with fentanyl and crack cocaine.
The FBI sent SWAT teams and agents from Atlanta and neighboring South Carolina and Florida Wednesday to help round up more than 30 suspects in coastal Brunswick and surrounding Georgia communities, said Jermaine Deans, the assistant agent in charge of the FBI's Atlanta office. He said one man who fled was arrested with 122 grams of fentanyl.
“Make no mistake, illegal distribution of illegal drugs is not a victimless crime,” said U.S. Attorney David Estes of the Southern District of Georgia. He said the three who died “bear silent witness to the toll of these illegal drugs flowing into our communities.” In New York, four men accused of selling more than 50 guns to an undercover police officer in Brooklyn were charged Wednesday under a new federal gun trafficking law. They were also charged with trafficking fentanyl and crack cocaine.
The law allows prosecutors to charge gun-trafficking conspiracy as a standalone federal crime without having to show that a defendant was in the business of selling guns. The law also provides for greater penalties, with defendants facing up to 50 years in prison as opposed to a maximum of five or 10 years under other statutes.
In the Georgia case, federal authorities seized 43 guns including some assault rifles. Estes said all 76 defendants were charged with conspiracy to possess and distribute illegal drugs, punishable by 10 years to life in prison. Many were charged with additional crimes.
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