NYC Criminal Justice Deputy Arrested For Illegal Handgun

By Tom Knighton

It isn’t easy to get a gun in New York City. Most don’t even bother to do it legally. They know they’ll never be allowed to jump through all the various hoops required.

Criminals, however, get their hands on them all the time. This is a simple fact.

Apparently, it’s a simple fact that high ranking city government officials sometimes get guns the exact same way.

This de Blasio administration official set one heckuva bad example for the teens she was hired to keep out of jail.

Reagan Stevens, a deputy director in the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, and two young men were arrested for illegal weapons possession while sitting in a double-parked car near the scene of a Saturday night shooting in Queens, cops said.

A loaded, 9mm semi-automatic pistol with its serial number defaced was hidden in the car’s glovebox, and there was a spent shell casing on the floor near Stevens’ feet in the rear of the 2002 dark red Infiniti SUV, law enforcement sources said.

The trio’s arrest followed a burst of five gunshots that activated an NYPD “ShotSpotter” device in Jamaica at 9:42 p.m. Saturday, sources said.

The listening device pinpointed the shooting at 174th Street and 109th …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms