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Feds: Out-Of-State Ex-Con Ran Guns Used In Jersey City Crimes Feds: Out-Of-State Ex-Con Ran Guns Used In Jersey City Crimes
Feds: Out-Of-State Ex-Con Ran Guns Used In Jersey City Crimes ATF agents busted a convicted felon who they said trafficked guns to Jersey City that were used in crimes, including at least one shooting. A federal judge in Georgia ordered Jonathan Brown, 26, held Wednesday pending a detention hearing this Friday after special agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested him on gun trafficking charges, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Craig Carpenito said. As an ex-con with several previous convictions, Brown, of Covington, GA, couldn’t buy the firearms himself, so he used straw purchasers in and around Georgia, then trafficked …