NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — A doorman who ran an illegal “gun show” out of his Midtown Manhattan building was arrested after he sold 80 guns to an undercover NYPD detective, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Doorman Roberto Carmona, 51, of Morningside Heights, was indicted on charges including first-degree criminal sale of a firearm on Tuesday, the Manhattan District Attorney’s office and the NYPD said in a joint press release.
Three Tennessee residents — Harold Floran, 51, Alan Goode, 30, and Melvyn McDonald, 41 — were charged with supplying the guns Carmona illegally sold to the cop, the release said.
“Roberto Carmona allegedly used his job as a doorman to operate a highly illegal, one-man gun show out of the Midtown building where he worked — storing ammunition in his locker and selling multiple deadly weapons outside,” Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said in a statement.
“Mr. Carmona is also accused of bringing his work home with him, selling dozens of guns outside the Morningside Heights building where he lived,” Vance added.
Prosecutors say Carmona sold 80 guns — including 63 semi-automatic pistols, 11 revolvers, two assault rifles, two rifles, a sawed-off shotgun, a shotgun and a slew of ammunition — to an undercover detective near his home in Morningside Heights and at the West 55th Street building that employed him.
The doorman charged between $500 and $3,700 for each of the weapons, according to prosecutors.
Goode and McDonald would buy the guns in Tennessee and sell them to Floran, who would pass them on to Carmona, prosecutors said.
“New York City police officers risk their lives every day to prevent guns from getting into criminals’ hands because every shooting is a serious concern to the public and the police,” NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said in his own statement.
“With too many illegal guns already out there, it’s a great service that our NYPD investigators and prosecutors have performed in this case to ensure that these trafficked guns were taken out of commision before reaching our city streets,” Shea added.
Attorney information for the four men wasn’t immediately available Tuesday.
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