The suspects — Ahmed “Taju” Mutalib, Abdul Haruna, and Murtala Haruna, all of whom are cousins — were indicted by a grand jury on 575 counts, charging…
Several of the buys went down in the same Astoria parking lot where the undercover agent “put himself in danger” to make the purchases, DA Melinda Katz saidThree members of the same family were arrested and face hundreds of counts of gun trafficking after a major bust in Queens turned up more than 100 illegal firearms, including assault weapons, according to the district attorney.
Police were tipped off to the alleged trafficking through a confidential tip in March, Katz said. In addition to the 20 assault weapons, there were 139 high-capacity magazines and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. “All these deadly weapons, they all come from one source: Three defendants that we now have in custody. They have been indicted,” Katz said. “This much lethal firepower in the hands of people on the street — I can’t even imagine how many lives were saved with this takedown.”
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