Brooklyn block party ends in guilty plea for gun possession
A 31-year-old man from Crown Heights pleaded guilty to gun possession on Monday after he was arrested and sent to jail for getting caught with a pistol during a block party.
“I was at a barbecue and the cops came up,” Shawn Daniels said in Brooklyn federal court. “Before they even grabbed me, I threw the gun in the grass.”
Daniels addressed Judge Carol Amon with a soft voice after he was nearly 40 minutes late to his pleading because of train traffic.