Tag: weapons trafficking
Joao Silva, Gun and Fentanyl Trafficking, California 2022
⏱ 4 min read A Brazilian national with a taste for the dark side of the American Dream has been brought to justice for peddling guns and fentanyl in the shadows of Eastern Massachusetts. Talles Provette De Faria, 35, a fugitive from the law who didn’t even bother to hide his identity, met with an…
Frank Jude Petrone, Sr., Firearms Trafficking, Florida 2024
⏱ 3 min read Tampa, FL – A gun store employee who thought he was above the law has landed himself behind bars. Frank Jude Petrone, Sr. was sentenced to three years and one month in federal prison for trafficking in firearms and selling to a convicted felon. Petrone, 56, was working at a licensed…
Michael J. Johnson, Armed Robbery, Kansas 2023
⏱ 2 min read A brazen heist in Raytown, Missouri, left a gun store reeling after thieves backed a U-Haul truck into the front of the business, making a hole and making off with 41 firearms on June 16, 2023. One of the stolen pistols was later recovered in Tracy, California, while two others were…
Laclarence Lamarcus Anderson, Pushing Illegal Firearms, South Carolina 2026
⏱ 3 min read Laclarence Lamarcus Anderson, 43, is staring down a 25-year stretch in federal prison after a jury convicted him of pushing illegal firearms, including Glock switches that turn pistols into automatic weapons, alongside a cocktail of drugs. The deals went down in Columbia, South Carolina, between May and June of this year.…
Jose De La Cruz-Cardoza, Gunrunning, Texas 2025
⏱ 3 min read Jose De La Cruz-Cardoza, 52, is trading the Rio Grande for a federal cell after a judge slapped him with 15 years for running guns to a Mexican drug cartel. Federal agents busted Cardoza at the Eagle Pass Port of Entry on July 12, 2025, trying to shove eight handguns and…
