LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – A Las Vegas man was sentenced on Friday after pleading responsible to promoting ghost weapons and cocaine, in response to the U.S. Legal professional’s workplace.
Richard Edwin Sanchez pleaded responsible to at least one depend of participating within the enterprise of dealing firearms with out a license, one depend of distribution of cocaine, and one depend of possession or switch of a machine gun in Las Vegas and North Las Vegas.
Sanchez was sentenced to a few years in jail, adopted by three years of supervised launch.
In keeping with court docket paperwork, from April 24, 2023, to August 3, 2024, Sanchez engaged within the enterprise of dealing in firearms with out a Federal Firearms License by promoting 17 firearms, together with .223, .40, and 5.56 caliber firearms, 9mm firearms, and a 12-gauge shotgun.
Of those firearms, 10 had been Glock semi-automatic firearms able to being transformed into absolutely computerized weapons utilizing machinegun conversion units supplied by Sanchez, in response to the U.S. Legal professional’s workplace.
As well as, he bought 21 machinegun conversion units. Of the Glock pistols, 9 had been bought with giant capability magazines, two had been stolen, and two others had been related to at the least 5 shootings within the Las Vegas and North Las Vegas space.
Two different firearms bought had both no serial quantity or an obliterated serial quantity. Moreover, Sanchez bought a complete of about 435 grams of cocaine, the U.S. Legal professional’s workplace stated.
