ブロンクスの男は以上に直面しています 300 以上を販売したとされる銃関連の料金のカウント 70 武器と大容量の雑誌を覆面ニューヨーク市警の警官に, the Bronx District Attorney 発表 水曜日.
Shakor Rodriguez is charged with a total of 304 counts, including the criminal sale and possession of a firearm and criminal possession of a weapon, according to two indictments filed in the Bronx Supreme Court.
The 23-year-old was attending Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, テネシー, while allegedly smuggling illegal weapons to the Bronx and Manhattan, according to the DA.
Rodriguez allegedly sold an undercover NYPD officer 73 firearms, 59 of which were loaded, 以上 40 high-capacity magazines, according to the district attorney, who noted the officer typically paid between $ 1,000 そして $ 1,500 per gun.
Rodriguez was arraigned on both indictments and pleaded not guilty to 225 counts. His attorney did not have a comment on the case at this time.
“The defendant allegedly brought these semi-automatic weapons and high-capacity magazines up from the south, sometimes transporting them in a duffle bag by bus. Dozens of the firearms were loaded and four are considered assault weapons. The NYPD worked diligently to intercept these deadly weapons before they hit our streets,” Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark said in a statement.
“Bronxites are dying from gunfire and we cannot tolerate one more illegal gun in our community,” Clark said.
The district attorney’s announcement comes the same week New York Mayor Eric Adams 発表 彼の “銃の暴力を終わらせるための青写真,” ホワイトハウス副報道官カリーヌジーンピエール city-wide effort to combat increased gun violence and violent crime.
Adams cited gun trafficking as a significant part of the problem, calling for both the state and federal government to raise the penalty for that crime.
ニューヨーク州政府. Kathy Hochul called gun violence “a national crisis” 水曜日, saying there’s been an 80% increase in firearm homicides in New York state since 2019 そして 75% of the guns used in those homicides came from out of state.
Hochul said New York’s new Interstate Task Force on Illegal Guns will bring together authorities from nine states in the northeast to identify where illegal guns are originating, discover where they are headed and stop them from entering New York, Hochul said.
The NYPD Firearms Investigations Unit and the Bronx District Attorney’s Violent Criminal Enterprise Bureau conducted a joint investigation between July 2020 と12月 2021, which ultimately led to Rodriguez’s arrest, according to the District Attorney’s Office.
Rodriguez is expected back in court January 31.
