‘Iron Pipeline’ drug trafficker pleads guilty to illegally selling guns
A 24-year-old Brooklyn native pleaded guilty Friday to first-degree criminal sale of firearms after he smuggled 33 guns from North Carolina to Brooklyn, officials said.
Marcus Gamble, who grew up in Brooklyn but had been living in Charlotte, North Carolina, decided not to take his chances and pleaded guilty to Judge Elizabeth Foley in Brooklyn Supreme Court, and accepted a deal that would give him 10 years in prison with five years’ post-release supervision once he is sentenced on June 26.
“Today’s guilty plea and promised lengthy sentence is further evidence of our commitment to fight the scourge of gun trafficking, particularly from southern states with lax gun laws, in an effort to keep these deadly weapons off of the streets of Brooklyn,” Acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said in a statement.