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Teen Duo Caught With Machine Guns On SEPTA Bus In Philadelphia: DOJ Teen Duo Caught With Machine Guns On SEPTA Bus In Philadelphia: DOJ
Teen Duo Caught With Machine Guns On SEPTA Bus In Philadelphia: DOJ Two teens were arrested after police say they boarded a SEPTA bus in Philadelphia with machine guns hidden under their clothes, federal authorities announced on Wednesday, May 14. Kysem Humphrey, 19, and Jayquan Jett, 18, were charged by indictment with possession of a machine gun, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The indictment alleges the pair were caught with personally manufactured firearms that had been illegally modified into fully automatic weapons. Philadelphia Police officers found the weapons during a stop on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024,…

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Gun Used In Homicide Lands Seller Up 20 Years Jail Time: Bucks DA Gun Used In Homicide Lands Seller Up 20 Years Jail Time: Bucks DA
Gun Used In Homicide Lands Seller Up 20 Years Jail Time: Bucks DA A Delaware County woman who admitted to buying guns for criminals was sentenced to state prison after one of the firearms she sold was used in a Philadelphia homicide, the Bucks County District Attorney's Office announced on Thursday, May 1. Demia Burrell-Brinkley, 31, of Lansdowne, was sentenced to eight to 20 years in state prison after pleading guilty to multiple straw purchase-related charges, authorities said. She admitted to illegally buying four firearms between July 2020 and May 2022 from gun shops in Bucks and Montgomery counties, then selling them for $200 each, according to the r…

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Rapper Meek Mill Vows To Remove Guns From 'Killadelphia' Streets Rapper Meek Mill Vows To Remove Guns From 'Killadelphia' Streets
Rapper Meek Mill Vows To Remove Guns From 'Killadelphia' Streets Rapper Meek Mill criticized media priorities and pledged to combat gun violence in Philadelphia— referring to the city as “Killadelphia”—in a post shared on X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday, Dec. 11. He also called out Bucks County officials over what he described as unfair treatment of his cousin, highlighting systemic issues within the criminal justice system. Meek Mill called out the press for focusing on corporate scandals instead of the ongoing violence in his hometown. “100 kids get murdered in my hood [and] the press [is] stuck on one CEO … I will never get it!” the rapper wrote, exp…

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