A suspected Hartford drug dealer had access to two “ghost guns” and high-capacity magazines when he was arrested Saturday, the second recovery of untraceable weapons in the capital city in as many weeks.
Antuane Allen, 26, was charged with almost a dozen weapons and narcotics offenses after Vice & Narcotics Unit detectives developed information he has been selling drugs throughout the northeast corner of the city, Lt. Paul Cicero said.
Detectives located and arrested Allen on Saturday, when they found him with one so-called ghost gun and two high-capacity magazines, Cicero said. Detectives then searched his Garden Street apartment and found another untraceable handgun and two more high-capacity magazines.
Inside the apartment, police also found 70 bags of fentanyl, 3.9 grams of cocaine, one pound of marijuana and $800 cash, Cicero said.
Allen’s charges include two counts of possession of a ghost gun, four counts possession of a high-capacity magainze, operating a drug factory and the possession and sale of narcotics, according to police. He was held on $750,000 bond.
Saturday’s bust comes just days after detectives arrested another suspected drug dealer and found he, too, had an untraceable ghost gun.
Rafaelito Rivera, 24, was arrested May 19 by the same Vice & Narcotics Unit and faces nearly identical charges as Allen after detectives found an untraceable handgun and stash of drugs in Rivera’s Broad Street apartment.
Zach Murdock can be reached at zmurdock@courant.com.
