COXSACKIE, N.Y. — A quiet, studious man living in Brooklyn was actually the builder and owner of a trove of ghost guns . He says it was a hobby and that he was hurting no one. He said he was well within his rights to possess the unregistered, unlicensed weapons.
Video shows an up-close look at the intense raid that ended in his arrest.
Recently, CBS News New York’s Maurice Dubois had a conversation with Dexter Taylor at his maximum security prison.
The 2022 arrest of Dexter Taylor
With a search warrant, members of an elite NYPD unit forced their way into Taylor’s Bushwick residence on April 6, 2022. What followed was an hours-long search of his packed home, which was found loaded with ghost guns.
Taylor said he was laying in bed at around 6 a.m. when, “I hear a bang … and the voices get louder.”
He added, “I see underneath the crack of my door, I see like weapon lights flicking backwards. So I said, ‘Hello, hello, hello, I’m Dexter Taylor. Why you looking for me?’ Because I still thought they had the wrong house. Then they said, ‘Yeah, we’re here for you.'”