Gun-smuggling ring from Atlanta to JFK used Delta flights to move weapons: sources
Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson is expected to announce the arrest of Mark Henry and other co-conspirators on Tuesday. Henry is accused of smuggling 129 handguns and two rifles from May to December with help from a Delta ramp agent. At least some of the guns were hidden in carry-on luggage, sources said.
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Tuesday, December 23, 2014, 2:30 AM
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CARLOS OSORIO/APA Delta worker allegedly smuggled guns on flights from Atlanta to JFK.
A gun-smuggling ring that brought illegal firearms into Brooklyn via commercial airline flights was dismantled after investigators pinched the mule and then nabbed his hookup — a Delta employee in Atlanta.
Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson was expected to announce on Tuesday the arrest of gun-runner Mark Henry and several co-conspirators, law enforcement sources said Monday.
Henry smuggled at least 129 handguns and two assault rifles over the course of multiple trips between May 1 and Dec. 10, according to an FBI affidavit. At least some of those guns were ferried in carry-on bags on flights from Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport to Kennedy Airport, the document said.
Henry was arrested on gun-possession charges in Brooklyn on Dec. 10 as part of an investigation by the NYPD’s Organized Crime Control Bureau, the affidavit said. He admitted to running guns from Atlanta to New York when authorities caught him with an Oakley bag holding 18 guns — a bag that was empty when he first passed through security in Atlanta on the day of his arrest, the affidavit noted.
BRYAN PACE FOR NEW YORK DAILY NEWSBrooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson is expected to announce the arrest of the people involved in the gun-smuggling ring Tuesday.
Following that confession, authorities arrested Henry’s alleged co-conspirator Eugene Harvey, a Delta Air Lines ramp agent at Hartsfield-Jackson, the affidavit said. He was charged on Dec. 19 with trafficking firearms and entering an airport area in violation of security requirements.
Harvey would bring the guns into secure areas of the airport by using his security pass and then handed them off to Henry after the latter had passed through security, according to the FBI affidavit.
