Overview
- Prosecutors said Tuesday that Martin Streich was indicted on 73 counts after an NYPD sting targeting ghost gun sales.
- An undercover officer bought eight weapons from Streich, including two AR‑15‑style rifles and six handguns, according to the NYPD.
- Streich was arrested last Wednesday on Staten Island, where officers found one loaded AR‑style collapsible pistol and one unloaded ghost gun.
- A search of his Gravesend, Brooklyn apartment recovered high‑capacity magazines, unfinished frames, a silencer, 385 rounds, and about 18 conversion switches, and a device first thought to be a grenade was later identified as fireworks.
- Ballistic testing tied at least one seized gun to a series of nonfatal Jersey City shootings in 2023–2024, which prosecutors say underscores the threat of untraceable firearms as they continue to probe his sales and distribution.