A man who federal officials said organized illegal gun trafficking across state lines from Greenville and beyond has been sentenced to 11 years in prison.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Eastern District of North Carolina announced Friday that Jakil Deandre Bond, 28, was sentenced to 141 months in prison for engaging in illegal firearm trafficking and drug distribution.
They said Bond, a validated member of the Rollin 40’s set of the Crips street gang, organized the purchase of firearms through co-defendants and straw purchasers identified as Malik Jaree Bazemore and Ti’quiran Rodgers, who is also a validated gang member.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Greenville Police Department, Windsor Police Department, Pitt County Sheriff’s Office and D.C. Metro Police Department investigated the case.
U.S. Attorney Michael F. Easley Jr. called the operation “an iron pipeline of firepower from North Carolina to Washington, D.C., where shootings fueled further gang violence.”