Stiven Arturo Martínez Nin and his alleged partner Jyshun Trower have been accused of selling “two of the deadliest threats” facing New Yorkers: dozens of illegal guns and hundreds of grams of the deadly drug fentanyl, federal authorities announced.
Trower, a 27-year-old resident of Virginia, illegally transported and sold firearms in Manhattan and the New York area from June 5 to December 14, according to Manhattan Federal Court documents. In almost a dozen transactions, sold approximately 43 guns to an undercover agent and others, court documents state.
The arsenal included multiple pistols and semi-automatic rifles, assault rifles and pistols, ammunition, high-capacity magazines, a “ghost” pistol (no serial number) and components used to convert a semi-automatic pistol into a machine gun, he detailed. New York Post.
Trower and his partner Martínez Nin, a resident of Pennsylvania 24 years old, also conspired to sell 10,000 fentanyl pills, along with weapons, to an undercover agent, according to court documents. The plan went up in smoke on Dec. 14, when they were arrested at an unidentified location, federal authorities said. in a later statement.
Martínez Nin tried unsuccessfully to escape and discard a bag containing more than 2.2 pounds (one kilo) of counterfeit pharmaceutical pills laced with deadly fentanyl, the feds said.
Both were formally charged on December 19. The five-count complaint accuses Trower of firearms trafficking and both men of conspiracy to distribute narcotics.
“They are accused of allegedly selling two of the deadliest threats to New Yorkers: illegal firearms and fentanyl. “The firearms recovered by law enforcement included military-style assault weapons, and the drugs seized included more than one kilogram of counterfeit pharmaceutical pills containing deadly fentanyl and a fentanyl analog,” summarized U.S. Attorney Damian Williams.
“This indictment shows that the dangerous work performed by the NYPD and our law enforcement partners is effective, and that the proliferation of illegal weapons and drugs on our streets continues,” commented the New York Police Commissioner Edward Cabán.
Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that can be used to mix drugs such as cocaine or heroin to produce an effect up to 50 times stronger. “It is the most important threat to our public health and our public safety,” The DEA special agent in New York, Frank Tarentino, stood out in 2023. “It’s poison…. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Every day we have more seizures. In New York City there is a drug overdose every three hours. At the national level it is every five minutes, 295 a day.”
All charges are mere accusations and those charged are presumed innocent until proven guilty in court.
2024-01-03 18:51:07
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