NEW YORK — A group of gun traffickers sold more than 50 firearms to an undercover cop in Brooklyn, making the sales in a crowded waterfront park and on a playground, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.
The dealers brought many of the weapons from Virginia, and in some cases, the guns they sold had already been used for violence, authorities said — one was linked to a half-dozen gang-related shootings, including a 2021 bloodbath at a Bedford-Stuyvesant family day celebration that left eight people wounded.
U.S. Attorney Breon Peace and the NYPD announced the indictment of four suspects on Wednesday, describing the case as the first public indictment in New York under a bipartisan gun reform law signed by President Joe Biden last June.
