A Massachusetts man has been charged in a Rhode Island courtroom after allegedly faking residency within the Ocean State to buy assault-style weapons in an try to avoid his house state’s regulation banning such weapons.
Joshua Rosa-Reyes, 29, was arraigned in Rhode Island’s Second Division District Courtroom in Newport on Dec. 13, charged with eight counts of offering false data in securing a firearm and one depend of offering false assertion to fraudulently receive license or registration.
Legal professional Basic Peter Neronha’s workplace alleges that Rosa-Reyes, a resident of Fall River, offered a false handle in Pawtucket to acquire a Rhode Island driver’s license and additional “offered his false handle on state and federal firearms purposes at two licensed firearms sellers in Rhode Island to buy eight assault-style weapons between Could and August 2023.”
In August, state and federal investigators executed a search warrant at two storage items in Massachusetts belonging to Rosa-Reyes, the place they seized “a Glock-style ghost gun, a AK-47 assault weapon, a .357 Magnum revolver, ammunition, over 100 massive capability feeding gadgets, and varied different gun components together with three decrease receivers (thought of firearms beneath federal regulation), and $10,000 money.”
“We recruited and constructed our BCI investigative staff for simply this objective: to fight unlawful trafficking of firearms utilizing our distinctive regulatory authority over firearms sellers and long-developed experience on this space,” stated Neronha in an announcement. “I thank the investigators from this Workplace’s Bureau of Prison Investigation Unit and our federal and Massachusetts regulation enforcement companions for his or her distinctive work on this necessary case, and the licensed firearms sellers for his or her cooperation.”
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