CHICAGO — A Chicago rapper was indicted last week after he allegedly left a machine gun in a ride share vehicle in New York City back in 2022.
Isaiah Dukes, 26, of Calumet City, was indicted on Jan. 24 for possession of a machine gun and possession of an unregistered firearm in New York City, according to the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives .
Dukes, known as the rapper “ Lil Zay Osama ,” allegedly carried a loaded Glock pistol affixed with a switch in New York’s Queens borough on Sept. 29, 2022.
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A 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 that the firearm could automatically fire more than one round with a single function of the trigger, rendering it a machine gun.
Dukes was arrested in Sept. 2022 after leaving the firearm in a rideshare vehicle that brought him from a luxury hotel in Manhattan to a recording studio in Queens. He was indicted on Wednesday, Jan. 24.