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New Jersey Gun Trafficker Sentenced for Using Amtrak Trains to Move Guns up the ‘Iron Pipeline’

New Jersey Gun Trafficker Sentenced for Using Amtrak Trains to Move Guns up the ‘Iron Pipeline’
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Beth Brelje
Beth Brelje
Reporter
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A Trenton, New Jersey man has been sentenced to two years and three months in prison for trafficking 40 semi-automatic firearms from North Carolina into Philadelphia and New Jersey, using Amtrak’s Philadelphia 30th Street Station, U.S. Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams said in a statement.

Junious Flemming, 29, pleaded guilty in September to criminal conspiracy and transporting firearms on a common carrier.

Beth Brelje
Beth Brelje
Reporter
Beth Brelje is a former reporter with The Epoch Times. Ms. Brelje previously worked in radio for 20 years and after moving to print, worked at Pocono Record and Reading Eagle.
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