Philadelphia deputy charged with trafficking guns, including 2 used in fatal shooting near Roxborough High School - WPVI-TV

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PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- A lawman with the Philadelphia Sheriff's Office has been arrested and charged with trafficking and selling guns, according to the United States Attorney's bureau for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Samir Ahmad, 29, of Philadelphia, was taken into custody connected October 19 by national agents.

Court documents accidental 2 of the firearms Ahmad sold connected October 13 were traced by instrumentality enforcement arsenic being utilized successful a deadly ambush shooting aft a shot scrimmage astatine Roxborough High School 2 weeks earlier.

The September 27 shooting killed 14-year-old Nicolas Elizalde of Havertown, Pa. and near 4 different teenagers wounded.

Officials said Ahmad was employed with the Philadelphia Sheriff's Office opening successful February 2018. He was terminated connected October 19 and is successful custody.

According to tribunal documents, the charges stem from a gathering erstwhile authorities accidental Ahmad sold 2 semi-automatic pistols and ammunition to a confidential informant with the FBI successful Philadelphia.

During the exchange, the informant said that helium was "illegal" and would "get deported" if helium was caught successful possession of a BB gun.

Officials said Ahmad replied, "You don't got to interest astir nary of that."

Then, 5 days later, officials said Ahmad sold different semiautomatic pistol and implicit 50 grams of methamphetamine.

The suspect made $3,000 from the merchantability of the firearms.

If convicted, Ahmad could look a maximum punishment of 15 years successful prison.

Action News spoke with erstwhile FBI Agent Brad Garrett connected putting unneurotic a lawsuit similar this.

"It's precise pugnacious to get retired of a complaint wherever you're successful video with a gun, with drugs and a speech astir selling them," said Garrett.

He says putting these cases unneurotic isn't casual and present he's funny to cognize what Ahmad mightiness admit to.

"Through plea negotiations, helium whitethorn accidental I'll springiness you idiosyncratic A, B and C. I'll springiness you a pipeline of wherever I get guns," said Garrett.

He says methods utilized to hint the 2 guns backmost to the Roxborough shooting is hard to dispute.

"That benignant of forensic grounds is truly beauteous solid. My conjecture is it'll apt clasp up successful court," said Garrett.

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