Feds take down Brooklyn gun-running gang using new federal statute
A Brooklyn street gang that worked out of a Canarsie housing project was knocked out of commission Wednesday as federal prosecutors charged four reputed members with running the major gun- and drug-peddling operation.
Charged in the indictment are David McCann, Tajhai Jones, Raymond Minaya and Calvin Tabron for allegedly conspiring to traffic drugs and dozens of guns, prosecutors said.federal Bipartisan Safer Communities ActThe law allowed prosecutors to “streamline” the Brooklyn case by allowing the to charge gun trafficking conspiracy “as a standalone federal crime,” Peace said.Gregory P. Mango for NY Post
During the course of the year-long investigation, authorities were able to make undercover purchases of more than 50 illegal guns and over a kilo of fentanyl, along with other drugs, prosecutors said. “We cannot do anything in the city without our communities and all across the city,” NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell said at the press conference.
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