NORRISTOWN — Before his jail sentence was imposed, a Philadelphia man told a judge he prays his role in a gun trafficking scheme, purchasing guns for the leader of a corrupt organization, won’t lead to violence on the street.
“Every day I continue to pray that my actions don’t hurt anyone out there,” Anthony Michael Figueroa-Marko addressed Montgomery County Judge Wendy G. Rothstein during his sentencing hearing, adding he is “sorry” for purchasing eight firearms for the leader of a multi-county gun and drug trafficking organization between January 2023 and April 2024.
Rothstein sentenced Figueroa-Marko, 36, of the 2300 block of North 9th Street, to 11½ to 23 months in jail. “Pursuant to a warden agreement,” Rothstein said, Figueroa-Marko will serve his sentence at the Delaware County jail. The reasons for that agreement were not revealed in open court…