Two men were arraigned in Queens on a staggering 194-count indictment charging them with trafficking guns and narcotics in what prosecutors are calling the “Iron Pipeline.” Teddy Gaston, 39, aka “JD Yikes,” of Jamaica, and 41-year-old Jezerel Huston of Macon, Georgia, allegedly ran a coordinated operation moving firearms from Georgia into Southeast Queens to sell on the streets.
The case stems from a six-month joint investigation by the Queens District Attorney’s office, NYPD, and Homeland Security Investigations. Undercover operations documented more than 70 illegal transactions involving firearms, ammunition, fentanyl, and cocaine, with many taking place in a McDonald’s parking lot in Rosedale. Authorities say the haul included 59 firearms, seven assault weapons, a ghost gun, 98 fentanyl pills, roughly 100 grams of cocaine, and multiple rounds of ammunition, much of it high-capacity or defaced.
District Attorney Melinda Katz called the arrests a blow to a dangerous trafficking network. “These defendants peddled weapons and narcotics, running firearms, assault rifles, and at least one ghost gun up from the South to be sold in our borough,” Katz said. “We are determined to dismantle the Iron Pipeline that places countless lives at risk.”…