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Double trouble: Two charged with peddling 43 guns and fentanyl pills in NYC
A Virginia man and Pennsylvania resident are accused of peddling “two of the deadliest threats” facing New Yorkers — illegal guns and fentanyl.
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Double trouble: Two charged with peddling 43 guns and fentanyl pills in NYC
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Published Dec. 30, 2023, 10:16 a.m. ET
Two men are accused of peddling “two of the deadliest threats” facing New Yorkers — dozens of illegal guns and hundreds of grams of fentanyl, federal authorities said.
Jyshun Trower, 27, of Virginia Beach, Va., illegally transported and sold firearms in Manhattan and the NYC area from June 5 through Dec. 14, according to Manhattan Federal Court papers.
In almost a dozen transactions, Trower sold approximately 43 guns to an undercover agent and others, the court docs state.
They included multiple semiautomatic pistols, semiautomatic rifles, assault-style rifles and pistols, ammunition, high-capacity magazines, a ghost gun, and components used to convert a semiautomatic pistol into a machine gun, federal authorities said.
Trower and his partner, Stiven Arturo Martinez Nin, 24, also conspired to sell 10,000 fentanyl pills, along with guns, to an undercover law enforcement agent, the court documents said.
The plan went up in smoke on Dec. 14, when the pair was busted at an unidentified location, federal authorities said.
3 Trower allegedly sold these guns in Manhattan on August 25, according to the feds. US Attorney SDNY
3 Federal authorities said Trower sold these high-powered weapons in Manhattan on August 17, according to court papers. US Attorney SDNY
3 Trower is charged with selling this firepower in the Big Apple on July 31, court papers state. US Attorney SDNY
Martinez Nin unsuccessfully tried to run off and discard a bag containing over 2.2 pounds of counterfeit pharmaceutical pills laced with deadly fentanyl, the feds said.
Trower and Martinez Nin, of Carlisle, Pa., were indicted Dec. 19.
The five-count complaint charges Trower with firearms trafficking and both men with conspiracy to distribute narcotics.
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“This indictment shows that the dangerous work conducted by the NYPD and our law enforcement partners is effective, and that the proliferation of illegal guns and drugs on our streets continues,” said NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban.