BROOKLYN — Federal prosecutors claim they've caught the dirty dozen.
Twelve gun smugglers have now been nabbed by the feds as part of a firearm-trafficking ring that stretched from Georgia up to the city, Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Robert Capers said.
Six gang members were charged Wednesday with conspiracy to deal in firearms, just months after the feds announced the indictment of six Georgia residents for their roles in the same scheme.
The gang members belonged to the Gangsta Killa Bloods and associates and trafficked more than 70 guns between the states over a six-month stretch, prosecutors said.
According to the authorities, the Georgia residents, three of whom were in the military, would pretend to purchase the guns for themselves between October 2015 and April 2016, but would turn around and sell them over Facebook. They’d then off-load them in Brooklyn.
A grand jury indicted Micah Isaiah Desuze, Dominique Chanel Fairnot, Jeremy Sanchez, Ashanti Sease-Matthews, Omar Jermaine Walker and Marquez Bridges on gun smuggling charges last summer.
But on Wednesday, six other conspirators, all of whom have a previous felony conviction, were also charged as part of the scheme.
They are: Richard "R Rated" Almarez, Terrell "Rellz" Brown, Tislam "Vietnam" Cato, Shaheem "Sha" Evans, Joseph "Bada Boom" Isar Ras and Elvin "Rico" Sanabria.
They face up to five years in prison if convicted.
