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GUN TRADE IS ECSTASY FOR SMUGGLERS( NY)
Josey1
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GUN TRADE IS ECSTASY FOR SMUGGLERS
By AL GUART
May 20, 2002 -- Gun runners into New York are smuggling loads of "ecstasy" pills out of the city, law-enforcement sources say.
Pistols bought out of state, where gun laws are more lax, can earn up to $300 in profit when sold on city streets, cops say.
In some cases, gun runners are using those proceeds to buy ecstasy in neighborhoods around Washington Heights for about $7 a pill, investigators have found.
These pills then can fetch up to $30 each in gun-supplying states.
"They end up making two or three times their investment on the guns and $13 to $23 on each ecstasy pill," said Dan Rather, chief of the Manhattan district attorney's Firearms Trafficking Unit.
In a recent federal case, a Bronx gun runner who sold undercover agents 98 handguns from Pennsylvania with defaced serial numbers was caught with 12,000 ecstasy pills.
Meanwhile, the feds are looking for Johan Parra, 27, a Bronx butcher who skipped bail after being charged with selling guns at the back of a C-Town supermarket.
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/48293.htm
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
By AL GUART
May 20, 2002 -- Gun runners into New York are smuggling loads of "ecstasy" pills out of the city, law-enforcement sources say.
Pistols bought out of state, where gun laws are more lax, can earn up to $300 in profit when sold on city streets, cops say.
In some cases, gun runners are using those proceeds to buy ecstasy in neighborhoods around Washington Heights for about $7 a pill, investigators have found.
These pills then can fetch up to $30 each in gun-supplying states.
"They end up making two or three times their investment on the guns and $13 to $23 on each ecstasy pill," said Dan Rather, chief of the Manhattan district attorney's Firearms Trafficking Unit.
In a recent federal case, a Bronx gun runner who sold undercover agents 98 handguns from Pennsylvania with defaced serial numbers was caught with 12,000 ecstasy pills.
Meanwhile, the feds are looking for Johan Parra, 27, a Bronx butcher who skipped bail after being charged with selling guns at the back of a C-Town supermarket.
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/48293.htm
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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