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Two men charged in assault rifle sale NJ
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Two men charged in assault rifle saleThursday, March 28, 2002By NICOLE GAUDIANOStaff WriterA grand jury has indicted two Passaic County men on charges of selling a Hackensack man an assault rifle that he fired at police before he was killed in a gunfight.With help from federal authorities, investigators from the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office tracked sales of the Bulgarian-made AK-47 from Virginia to Paterson, where 19-year-old Najee Brown and Rashawn Fowler, 21, of Passaic, allegedly bought the semiautomatic assault weapon for $700 sometime between January and February 2001.Fowler, the alleged middleman in the deal, is accused of the sale with Kevin Brabson, 22, of Paterson, who pawned it to him and Brown from the trunk of his car, said Bergen County Assistant Prosecutor James Santulli.Brown later used the weapon to spray bullets into a bedroom of a Central Avenue rooming house before being killed in a shootout with police on March 20, 2001. Two days earlier, Brown shot and killed his friend, Ryan Travis, at the same place with another gun that hasn't yet been recovered.Bergen County grand jurors indicted Brabson on Monday on third-degree charges of illegal possession of an assault firearm and selling an assault firearm.Fowler, meanwhile, was indicted on third-degree charges of illegally selling an assault firearm, illegal possession of an assault firearm, and second-degree possession of a firearm while a felon. He had previously been convicted of aggravated assault on a police officer and drug possession, authorities said.The second-degree crimes are punishable by up to 10 years in prison and the third-degree offenses by up to five years.Fowler was also indicted on charges of cocaine possession and possession with the intent to distribute the drug. Indicted on the same charges was an alleged accomplice, Lovella Cooper, 23, of Passaic.The men were arrested in June and Brabson was released on his own recognizance. Fowler, who was being held without bond in Bergen County, was brought to the Passaic County Jail in January and then extradited to New York on March 13 to face charges that could not be determined. http://www.bergen.com/page.php?level_3_id=7&page=2958689