NORRISTOWN — An Abington Township man already serving a life sentence for a deadly home invasion burglary in Lower Merion received an additional 15 years behind bars for being the leader of a gun trafficking organization that dealt in 3D-printed ghost guns, suppressors and machine gun conversion devices.
Charles Edward Fulforth, 42, of the 1600 block The Fairway, in the Jenkintown section of Abington Township, was sentenced in Montgomery County Court to 15 to 30 years in state prison after he pleaded guilty to charges of corrupt organizations, illegal transfer of firearms, conspiracy and person not to possess firearms in connection with his leading role in the gun trafficking activities between June 2024 and January 2025.
Judge Risa Vetri Ferman, who accepted a plea agreement in the case, imposed the sentence consecutively to the life prison term Fulforth received earlier this year after a jury convicted him of first-degree murder in connection with his role in the Dec. 8, 2024, fatal home invasion at a residence in the unit block of Meredith Road in Lower Merion…