{"id":155763,"date":"2026-03-06T22:48:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T22:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/155763\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T22:48:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T22:48:35","slug":"ag-james-hits-alleged-brooklyn-gun-trafficking-boss-with-massive-176-count-criminal-indictment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/155763\/","title":{"rendered":"AG James hits alleged Brooklyn gun trafficking boss with massive 176-count criminal indictment"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Firearms the New York Attorney General\u2019s office alleges were recovered from Khyle Williams, whom it indicted for gun trafficking on Friday, March 6, 2026.<\/p>\n

Photo courtesy of New York Attorney General\u2019s office<\/p>\n

Attorney General Letitia James<\/a>\u2018 office on Friday slapped a 31-year-old Brooklyn<\/a> man with a 176-count indictment<\/a>, charging him with allegedly running an illegal gun trafficking operation for much of last year.<\/p>\n

The Attorney General\u2019s office is accusing the alleged gun-runner, Khyle Williams, of making at least nine illegal firearms sales between May and October of 2025 both inside and outside of New York state, according to the indictment.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was the purpose of this conspiracy to obtain, possess, control, transport and sell firearms<\/a> in Kings County and elsewhere inside and outside the State of New York, and to collect the proceeds from the sale of those firearms,\u201d the indictment reads.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Williams was hit with charges including conspiracy in the fourth degree; criminal sale of a firearm in the first, second, and third degrees; criminal possession of a weapon in the second and third degrees; and criminal possession of a firearm. He faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted.<\/p>\n

The 83-page indictment, filed in Kings County Supreme Court on March 6, resulted from a joint investigation by the Organized Crime Task Force (OCTF) of James office, the NYPD, and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).<\/p>\n

The investigation included controlled firearm buys, video surveillance, and reviewing telephone and financial records, according to James\u2019 office. Investigators say they recovered 32 guns, 12 high-capacity magazines, and 200 rounds of ammunition from Williams.<\/p>\n

\u201cNew York City continues to turn the tide against gun violence, and investigations that stop gun traffickers and get guns off our streets are critical to keeping people safe,\u201d James said in a statement.\u00a0\u201cMy office is committed to putting a stop to gun trafficking operations that flood our communities with dangerous weapons. I thank our law enforcement partners for their work in this investigation to seize dozens of firearms and protect New Yorkers.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Attorney General\u2019s office alleges that Williams and others involved in the conspiracy used codes and communicated in a \u201cguarded, cryptic manner\u201d when discussing the sale of firearms. He used the encrypted messaging app Telegram to negotiate the prices of the guns and ammunition he sold as well as to organize meet-ups with his buyers, according to the indictment.<\/p>\n

Williams made his sales inside a car in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, typically netting between $800 and $1,100 for the guns and accessories he sold, the legal filing alleges. Some of the firearms Williams sold were allegedly reported stolen in the state of Georgia, according to the Attorney General\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

When reached by amNewYork, Williams\u2019 attorney, Deborah Cohen, declined to comment.\n<\/p>\n

With reporting by Isabella Gallo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firearms the New York Attorney General\u2019s office alleges were recovered from Khyle Williams, whom it indicted for gun…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[64452,98,100,99,64453,64454,64455,398,9,3594,24,63,103],"class_list":["post-155763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-atf","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-deborah-cohen","tag-gun-trafficking","tag-khyle-williams","tag-letitia-james","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-attorney-general-letitia-james","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}