Westchester County District Attorney Miriam E. Rocah announced on Friday, March 22, that three people were sentenced to a combined 31 years in state prison for selling more than 30 ghost guns in Yonkers after trafficking them from Washington, D.C. to Westchester County in 2022.

 

The sentencing comes a few days after federal prosecutors announced, as reported by Norwood News, that nearly 45 pounds of cocaine was seized from drug traffickers in Yonkers after they traveled through the Bronx to New Jersey on March 13 and were intercepted by law enforcement. On Friday, March 22, federal prosecutors also announced a separate seizure of cocaine and $3 million in cash, as also reported, from an appartment on Gates Place in the Norwood section of The Bronx.

 

In the context of the announcement, Rocah, who as previously rerported, announced she is not seeking reelection, said, “This case underscores our tireless and proactive efforts to stop the proliferation of illegal firearms. These significant sentences are a result of our prosecutors, investigators and our law enforcement partners working in sync to dismantle gun trafficking networks into Westchester County.”

 

The court heard that Netaly Pena-Camilo, 28, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced on Mar. 20 to 15 years in state prison, with 5 years of post-release supervision, after pleading guilty to two counts of criminal sale of a firearm in the first degree, criminal sale of a firearm in the second degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and conspiracy in the fourth degree.

 

Westchester DA officials said Jose Gregorio Olivo-Feliz, 29, of Yonkers, had previously been sentenced on Sept. 7, 2023, to nine years in state prison, with five years of post-release supervision, after pleading guilty to criminal sale of a firearm in the first degree.

 

Additionally, they said Pedro Junior Olivo-Feliz, 23, of Yonkers, had also previously been sentenced on Sept. 7, 2023, to seven years in state prison, with five years of post-release supervision, after pleading guilty to criminal sale of a firearm in the first degree.

 

The court heard that between April 29 and June 24, 2022, the defendants transported illegal firearms from Washington, D.C. to Yonkers and sold a total of 31 un-serialized firearms, also known as ghost guns, and two conventional firearms on five separate occasions to undercover law enforcement agents.

 

Westchester County prosecutors said the Yonkers Police Department and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency D43 (DEA) arrested Jose Gregorio Olivo-Feliz and Pedro Junior Olivo-Feliz on June 24, 2022. They said Pena-Camilo was apprehended in Washington, D.C. on June 29, 2022, by members of the investigative team, with assistance from the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia.

 

They said the joint investigation, which they said shut down an “iron pipeline” of illegal firearms, was initiated by the Yonkers Police Department’s narcotics unit in partnership with the DEA, the NYPD, the New York State Police, the FBI, and the violent criminal enterprise bureau of the Westchester County District Attorney’s Office.

 

The case was heard before Judge Robert Prisco in Westchester County Court and prosecuted by Assistant District Attorneys Rachel Ehrhardt and Kevin Jones, both of the trials and investigations division.