Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said that a Virginia man who pleaded guilty to counts of trafficking firearms and selling drugs has been sentenced to 14 years in prison. U.S. District Judge Denise L. Cote sentenced 27-year-old Virginia Beach resident Jyshun Trower to a lengthy prison sentence and an extra five years of supervised release after his sentence, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a release.
Between June and December 2023, Trower engaged in a number of illicit transactions. According to court documents, he sold approximately forty-three firearms, including high-capacity magazines and parts that turn semiautomatic pistols into fully automatic weapons, to undercover agents and other individuals. These transactions took place amid the busy and occasionally sinister underground trade of Manhattan and the greater New York City Area. Semiautomatic rifles, assault-style rifles and pistols, ammo, and a “ghost gun”—a firearm without a serial number that law enforcement could track down—were among the assortment of weapons.
In addition to trafficking firearms, Trower allegedly planned to sell up to 10,000 fake prescription tablets containing the potent synthetic opioid fentanyl to an undercover law enforcement officer in a single transaction as part of his conspiracy. When police finally caught up with Trower on December 14, 2023, they discovered that he had a stash of more over a hundred fentanyl-laced pills in addition to the promised guns. In the announcement, U.S. Attorney Damian Williams stated, “Jyshun Trower put the lives of countless New Yorkers in danger by trying to flood the City with over 40 illegal firearms, including military-style assault weapons, that destroy human bodies and lives.”
With Assistant U.S. Attorney Lisa Daniels spearheading the prosecution, the investigation was successful thanks to the unwavering efforts of the New York City Police Department, the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York Division, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Security Investigations New York Field Office. The case, which was handled by the Office’s Narcotics Unit, is a warning about the murky lines separating law from chaos.
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