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Rocco Parascandola

5 indicted in investigation of guns smuggled from South to NYC

NEW YORK — Five people have been indicted for running guns from Tennessee to New York City, the Queens district attorney’s office said Thursday.

The details of the probe will be laid out in an afternoon news conference by DA Melinda Katz and NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell.

The DA’s office said the 1,611-count indictment of the suspects is a result of law enforcement’s efforts “to break the notorious ‘Iron Pipeline’ used to smuggle guns purchased down south to be sold illegally in New York.”

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