A New Jersey man has been sentenced to 11 years in state prison after being caught trying to transport six guns from Georgia to sell.
State Police pulled over Barrett R. Griffin III, 33, of North Brunswick, on the New Jersey Turnpike in Mount Laurel in February and found five handguns, one assault rifle and four large capacity ammunition magazines in the vehicle’s trunk, the state Office of the Attorney General said Tuesday.
Griffin pleaded in July guilty to transporting firearms into the state for unlawful sale and unlawful possession of a firearm.
“Keeping illegal weapons out of our state and off our streets is paramount to public safety,” said acting Attorney General Matt Platkin in a statement. “We are aggressively targeting those responsible for the proliferation of guns and gun violence in our communities, and that includes gun traffickers who illegally transport weapons into our state and put them in the hands of criminals.”
Griffin, who was sentenced on Sept. 9, is locked up at South Woods State Prison in Cumberland County following two previous convictions in Middlesex County for terroristic threats, according to online Department of Corrections records. He will have to serve more than six years and nine months before he is eligible for parole, the Attorney General’s office said.
The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives assisted State Police in the investigation.
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