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A brazen guns-for-weed dealer bit the dust in a Bridgeport courtroom when Bryan Joyce, 40, of Southington, was slapped with a 90-month sentence for peddling assault rifles and marijuana to undercover cops.
According to court records, Joyce, a convicted felon with a penchant for breaking the law, started selling privately made AR-15-style firearms, ammo, and weed to an undercover officer in January 2022.
On January 28, 2022, Joyce sold the undercover cop a PMF rifle, a 9mm handgun, and ammo for $2,000. Two weeks later, he sold the officer two loaded AR-15-style rifles and 400 grams of weed for $5,800.
When cops finally caught up with Joyce on March 21, 2022, they found five more PMF rifles, a kilo of weed, and a plethora of ammo in his vehicle.
A search of Joyce’s supplier, Gregory Leary’s, Wolcott home turned up more PMF rifles, handguns, a shotgun, and a cache of firearm parts and accessories, along with $7,129 in cash.
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