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Convicted drug dealer from Dorchester now also convicted gun runner
By adamg on Mon, 03/21/2016 - 10:17pm
A federal jury on Friday convicted Shayne Parker, 41, of interstate transportation of firearms and being a felon in possession of 50 rounds of ammunition, the US Attorney's office reports.
Parker would use drugs - which he carried in plastic bags under his scrotum - to pay addicts to go into gun stores in New Hampshire in 2014 to buy guns, which he and an accomplice would then transport to Boston, prosecutors say.
Parker faces sentencing June 10 for his new convictions of interstate transportation of firearms and being a felon in possession of 50 rounds of ammunition.
Parker had to hire straw purchasers for the guns because he was barred himself from buying guns because of a 1998 conviction for selling cocaine and a 2005 conviction for assault with a dangerous weapon.
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Comments
Have these guns been used in the Boston gangland shootings?
If so, will he be charged as an accessory to any murders?
The most disgusting part?
The idea that someone would use those drugs that he stored "down there". GAG!
You'll eat cheese aged in a
You'll eat cheese aged in a basement but you won't try any Gooch Hooch? Your loss, I guess.
I am so glad that this
I am so glad that this alleged scumbag is off the streets for now. The ready availability of illegal firearms that have flooded this city is to identify and prosecute these "straw" buyers. The next line of defense in slowing gun violence will require staunching the easy flow of lethal weapons from out of state.
Pretty sure the drugs he sold
Pretty sure the drugs he sold came from out of state as well. We need strict federal laws banning their sale, that will stop them.
eeew
Scrotum drugs. No thanks.
I'll say this ....
It took balls to stash drugs where he did.