Convicted killer adds to life term for gun trafficking activities

NORRISTOWN — A Philadelphia man was emotionless as he accepted additional prison time, on top of the life sentence he is already serving for his role in a deadly home invasion burglary in Lower Merion, for participating in a gun trafficking organization that dealt in 3D-printed ghost guns, suppressors and machine gun conversion devices.

Jeremy Fuentes, 27, of the 7200 block of North 18th Street, was sentenced in Montgomery County Court on Monday to 6 to 14 years in a state correctional institution after he pleaded guilty to charges of corrupt organizations, illegal transfer of firearms, sale of firearms to ineligible persons and conspiracy in connection with his role in gun trafficking activities with several others 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 Fuentes received last year after a jury convicted him of second-degree murder in connection with his role in a Dec. 8, 2024, fatal home invasion at a residence in the unit block of Meredith Road in Lower Merion…

Story continues

TRENDING NOW

LATEST LOCAL NEWS