STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A 20-year-old Staten Island man has pleaded guilty to a gun charge stemming from a car stop in March that yielded five arrests and a loaded handgun, court records show.
Antoine Thurmond of Mariners Harbor is scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 12 to two years in prison and two years of post-release supervision in connection with the incident. He had pleaded guilty recently before Justice Alexander B. Jeong to second-degree attempted criminal possession of a weapon.
Thurmond’s attorney did not return a request for comment Tuesday.
Prosecutors said the incident unfolded at about 12:20 a.m. on March 23 near Bement Avenue and Richmond Terrace in West Brighton, when police observed Thurmond driving a gray Nissan Altima.
Thurmond and four other males, all about the same age and from Mariners Harbor, were ordered out of the vehicle. A loaded gun was found in the vehicle and they were all arrested, court documents alleged.
Officers who pulled over the vehicle were assigned to a specialized NYPD unit tasked in part with preventing violent crime on Staten Island.
Police noted excessive tint on the car’s windows as the reason for the traffic stop, which they confirmed with a tool that measures light transmittance, court documents stated.
The cases against the four other defendants are ongoing.