The Queens DA’s office displays the illegal firearms and ammo that were recovered during raids in Jamaica.
Courtesy of the Queens DA’s Office
Two Jamaica men were criminally charged with possessing an arsenal of illegal weapons and stockpiles of ammunition, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Tuesday morning.
The co-defendants were arrested last week after law enforcement agencies executed search warrants at their homes and other locations, where they found a dozen illegal firearms, including ghost guns, as well as high-capacity magazines, ammo and ghost gun manufacturing tools, according to Katz.
Christopher Lall, 32, of Hillside Avenue, was arraigned on Aug. 24 in Queens Criminal Court on a 57-count complaint charging him with 14 counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, 18 counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, seven counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, six counts of criminal sale of a firearm in the third degree, six counts of criminal possession of a firearm and six counts of criminal possession of ammunition.
Steve Salamalay, 30, of 89th Avenue, was arraigned on Aug. 23 before Queens Criminal Court Judge Anthony Battisti on a 40-count complaint charging him with seven counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, 15 counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, six counts of criminal sale of a firearm in the third degree, eight counts of criminal possession of a firearm, three counts of criminal possession of ammunition, and failure to obtain firearms certificates of registration.
According to the charges, members of the Queens District Attorney’s office conducted a long-term investigation into the defendants’ purchase of polymer-based, unserialized firearm components, which are easily assembled into operable firearms without serial numbers, making the weapons, commonly referred to as ghost guns, untraceable. On Aug. 23,…
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