Overview
- Joshua Morency, 28, is charged with dealing firearms without a license and possessing a machinegun following his Nov. 12 arrest.
- Charging documents allege 21 firearms were sold in undercover purchases between August and October, most of them privately made ghost guns without serial numbers.
- An ATF affidavit says several weapons operated as fully automatic and that $16,560 in cash was captured on recordings during Boston-area transactions.
- Investigators describe controlled buys arranged with coded language and conducted at locations that included a Dorchester supermarket and a gas station.
- The case is being brought under the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, with cited maximum penalties of five years for unlicensed dealing and ten years for machinegun possession, and the allegations have not been proven.