Lil Zay Osama was arrested in September 2022 after he left the unregistered machine gun in the back of a rideshare vehicle
Rapper Lil Zay Osama was indicted Wednesday in the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn for possession of an unregistered machine gun.
Per court documents obtained by The Messenger, Lil Zay (born Isaiah Dukes) was indicted for possession of a Glock model 22.40 caliber pistol with a switch attached. A spokesperson for the EDNY said in a press release shared with The Messenger that the switch is “a device that when attached to the back of a handgun like a Glock converts the firearm into a fully automatic weapon.”
Authorities determined the Glock is a machine gun as it can “fire more than one round with a single function of the trigger,” per the release.
The firearm, which authorities seized on Sept. 29, 2022, in Queens, N.Y., was unregistered, leading to the second count against Dukes.
“Dukes was arrested after leaving the firearm in a rideshare vehicle that brought him from a luxury hotel in Manhattan to a recording studio in Queens,” the EDNY added.