In a joint operation by Detectives with the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office, the Office of Attorney General’s Gun Violence Task Force and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a 25-year-old Philadelphia man was arrested on Friday for the illegal straw purchases of 16 firearms from gun stores in Bucks, Philadelphia, Montgomery, and Delaware counties.
Deon Lamont Hudson, of Philadelphia, was charged with 39 counts of unlawful sale or transfer of a firearm and conspiracy to commit of unlawful sale or transfer of a firearm. He was arrested in Philadelphia on Friday and arraigned by Magisterial District Judge Frank W. Peranteau Sr., who sent him to Bucks County Correctional Facility under $200,000 bail, 10 percent.
“By putting him out of commission and out of illegal commerce, we have undoubtedly saved lives,” District Attorney Matt Weintraub said.
The investigation found that between August 2020 and November 2021 Hudson purchased 16 9-mm firearms at eight locations across Bucks, Montgomery, Philadelphia, and Delaware counties. Investigators determined Hudson then illegally transfered the purchased weapons to others who were not legally able to purchase firearms. Two of the firearms were recovered on teenagers in Philadelphia within 50 days of the date of purchase, and one of those guns was traced back to two shooting incidents in Philadelphia.
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