BRONX MAN SENTENCED TO FOUR YEARS IN PRISON FOR HAVING GUNS AND HIGH-CAPACITY MAGAZINES IN HIS CAR

 

Police Found Defendant Parked in Bus Lane

 Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that a Bronx man has been sentenced to four years in prison for second-degree Criminal Possession of a Weapon for having five handguns, an ammunition feeding device and high-capacity magazines in his car.

 District Attorney Clark said, “If you are planning to illegally bring firearms that can drive up violence in the Bronx, you will be prosecuted. The defendant pleaded guilty to having guns and ammunition feeding devices in his car. Thankfully, an alert patrol officer intercepted this cache of weapons.”

 District Attorney Clark said the defendant, Tyrell Livingston, 29, last of East 143rd Street, was sentenced today to four years in prison by Bronx Supreme Court Justice Albert Lorenzo. The defendant pleaded guilty to second-degree Criminal Possession of a Weapon on July 25, 2022.

 According to the investigation, on November 18, 2020 in front of 436 East 149th Street, Livingston was in a 2007 Mercedes Benz with dark tinted windows that was double-parked in an active bus lane when NYPD Officers approached him and told him to move the car. The defendant told them he did not have his license on him and that it was suspended. As Officers proceeded to arrest him, they found under the driver’s seat a .45 caliber semi-automatic pistol, loaded with seven rounds.

 The defendant’s vehicle was taken to the 40th Precinct and during an inventory search, Officers found a .9 mm Taurus Pistol with three magazines, a .9 mm Glock with 15 cartridges in the magazine, a .9 mm Taurus pistol containing two magazines, and a .9mm Millennium pistol inside a backpack in the trunk of the defendant’s car. Officers also found a drum feeder with 41 .40 mm cartridges, 14 .9mm cartridges, one magazine, and one high-capacity magazine.

 District Attorney Clark thanked arresting NYPD Officer Bismal Tineo of the 40th Precinct.