Dylan Ianncelli, Trafficking and Unlawfully Possessing Firearms, New Jersey 2023

A 29-year-old man from Pitman, New Jersey, has been sentenced to 151 months in prison for unlawfully possessing and conspiring to sell multiple firearms.

Dylan Ianncelli, of Gloucester County, previously pleaded guilty to an information charging him with one count of conspiring to make false statements in obtaining firearms and to illegally engage in the business of dealing in firearms, as well as one count of possession of firearms by a convicted felon.

According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court, Ianncelli and his conspirator, Jessy Hill, agreed to purchase firearms in Georgia and transport them for resale in New Jersey.

On Aug. 12, 2021, Hill purchased 11 firearms from a licensed dealer in Georgia. Hill falsely indicated during the purchase that she was the actual buyer/transferee of the firearms even though she was purchasing the firearms for others.

Ianncelli and Hill drove a car containing the firearms from Georgia to Mantua, New Jersey, where the car was stopped by law enforcement officers the following morning. Officers recovered from the car the 11 firearms purchased by Hill the prior day, as well as ammunition and a 12th firearm with a defaced serial number that Hill purchased a week earlier.

U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced the sentencing. Sellinger credited special agents and task force officers with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Newark Field Division, under the leadership of Acting Special Agent in Charge Bryan R. Miller, with the investigation leading to today's sentencing.

The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Bender of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Camden.

In addition to the prison term, Judge Joseph H. Rodriguez sentenced Ianncelli to three years of supervised release.

Hill previously pleaded guilty to her role in the scheme and is scheduled to be sentenced on March 1, 2023.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/gloucester-county-man-sentenced-151-months-prison-trafficking-and-unlawfully-possessing-0