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Two Busted With Semi-Automatic Guns In Fairfield County, Police Say
Two 21-year-old men were busted with semi-automatic guns in Fairfield County after police received work the men had guns.
Tyrone Sparks, age 21, Mason, North Carolina, and Jalen Baskerville, age 21, Norlina, North Carolina, were arrested on Wednesday, April 28, by members of the State Police Gang Task Force in Bridgeport, said Scott Appleby, director of Emergency Management.
The bust went down when task force members learned the men were armed with illegal firearms in a vehicle parked on Trumbull Avenue, said Appleby.
Task Force officers responded to the area utilizing members of the Bridg…
Bridgeport Man, 70, Sentenced For Trafficking Homemade Machine Guns
A Fairfield County man is going to spend more than a year behind bars for his role in trafficking illegal, homemade machine guns.
Bridgeport resident George Jaiman, 70, has been sentenced to 14 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking machine guns. He was also ordered to pay a $1,000 fine and perform 100 hours of community service after pleading guilty to one count of unlawful possession of a machine gun in Hartford federal court.
Between June 2017 and April last year, Torrington resident Sean Dey manufactured machine guns, including AK-47-style and A…
