Marquez Bridges, Interstate Gun Trafficking, New York 2016
Gun Trafficking Ring Busted in New York
A 17-count indictment was unsealed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York charging six defendants with conspiracy to deal in firearms and making false statements to acquire firearms.
The defendants, Marquez Bridges, Micah Isaiah Desuze, Dominique Chanel Fairnot, Jeremy Sanchez, Ashanti Sease-Matthews, and Omar Jermaine Walker, are accused of purchasing more than 70 firearms from stores and gun shows in Georgia between October 2015 and April 2016.
The firearms were transported to the metropolitan New York City area, where they were sold in illegal transactions on the street. The defendants made false statements to obtain the firearms, lying on ATF Form 4473.
Three of the defendants, Desuze, Sease-Matthews, and Walker, are former members of the United States military.
If convicted, the defendants face a maximum prison term of ten years.
The case is being prosecuted by the Office's Organized Crime & Gangs Section, with Assistant United States Attorneys Margaret E. Gandy and Rena Paul in charge of the prosecution.
Jeremy Sanchez, the most recent defendant arrested in this case, is scheduled to be arraigned before the Honorable Magistrate Judge Robert Levy at 2:00 p.m. this afternoon.
The charges and arrests were announced by Robert L. Capers, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York; Diego Rodriguez, Assistant Director-in-Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York Field Office (FBI); and William J. Bratton, Commissioner, New York City Police Department (NYPD).
Key Facts
- State: New York
- Category: Violent Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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