{"id":181059,"date":"2026-03-31T17:20:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T17:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/181059\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T17:20:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T17:20:40","slug":"major-ghost-gun-trafficker-busted-in-brooklyn-prosecutors-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/181059\/","title":{"rendered":"Major ghost gun trafficker busted in Brooklyn, prosecutors say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of New York City&#8217;s most notorious and prolific ghost gun traffickers is in custody, prosecutors claimed Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Streich, 21, allegedly used a 3D printer to create guns, including at least one that was used in shootings in New Jersey, according to the Staten Island District Attorney&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>An undercover officer helped crack the case by buying eight weapons from Streich, the NYPD said. Those weapons included two AR-15-style rifles and six handguns.<\/p>\n<p>Police arrested Streich last week and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/brooklyn-possible-pipe-bomb-gravesend\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">served a search warrant at his home in Brooklyn<\/a>. Officers found ghost guns, high-capacity magazines, 385 rounds of ammunition, a flashbang grenade, and switches to turn handguns into machine guns, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The guns were tested and it came back a ballistic match to a shots-fired job into a place in New Jersey,&#8221; NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said.<\/p>\n<p>Those shootings, which took place in 2023 and 2024, were fortunately not fatal.<\/p>\n<p>Streich was indicted on 73 counts, and faces more than 25 years in prison if convicted on the top charge, criminal sale of a firearm in the first degree.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of New York City&#8217;s most notorious and prolific ghost gun traffickers is in custody, prosecutors claimed Tuesday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,26454,9,24,63,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-181059","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-ghost-guns","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-nypd"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181059","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=181059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}