New York’s Staten Island. According to information obtained this week by Advance/SILive.com, a military member who was arrested during a traffic check last spring on a felony weapons charge has been sentenced in the case, while four other men who were also arrested have since been cleared of the allegations.
In relation to the May 10 incident in Mariners Harbor, Saviann Maxell, 30, of New Street in Port Richmond, entered a guilty plea last October to criminal possession of a handgun.
According to documents, on October 31, Justice Raja Rajeswari sentenced him to a year of conditional discharge in exchange for his plea. He will not be subject to jail time if he lives a law-abiding life for a year.
A request for comment on Wednesday was not answered by Patrick Parrota, Maxell’s lawyer.
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Lawyers offer explanation
Maxell and the other defendants were in a black BMW 328 when NYPD officers pulled them up for what they said was a minor traffic infringement just after 9 p.m. near Richmond Terrace and Arlington Avenue.
According to court filings, when officers searched the car, they found many firearms, hundreds of rounds, and large-capacity magazines. Unregistered was one of the firearms.
The NYPD promoted the arrests on social media at the time.
Two men, including Maxwell, who had connections to the U.S. military were among the group of friends and acquaintances the defendants’ attorneys characterized as being on their way back from a shooting range.
On May 10, at approximately 9 p.m., police stopped the BMW in Mariners Harbor near Arlington Avenue and Richmond Terrace for what they said was a minor traffic violation. (Maps on Google)Maps on Google
DNA swabs
None of the defendants would claim ownership of the unregistered firearm for months after the arrests.
The court allowed the district attorney’s office to obtain the defendants’ DNA in September so that it could be compared to the unregistered firearm.Any defendant who displayed a match with the firearm might have been imprisoned for a minimum of three and a half years.
A source with knowledge of the case claims that although the DNA was taken, Maxell entered a plea before the findings were available.
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