A Queens-based gun trafficking crew was dismantled, leading to the recovery of nearly 200 firearms, including 11 assault weapons, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Friday.

According to QNS.comThe 579-count indictment charges Deundre Wright, 32, Abner Sparkes, 31 and Ethan Charles, 22 with trafficking and selling assault weapons, semi-automatic pistols, revolvers, high-capacity magazines and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. The three do 25 years in prison.

According to prosecutors, a multi-agency investigation recovered 184 guns during the operation, which were allegedly transported up to Queens from North Carolina, the report said.

“The majority of gun crimes in New York City are illegally trafficked from other states with lax gun laws along the Iron Pipeline and are fueling deadly gun violence in our communities,” James said. “This investigation shut down a major gun trafficking operation that brought a flood of dangerous weapons, including assault weapons, from North Carolina into New York City in just a few months.”

The investigation revealed that from March to July 2024, Wright would travel by bus from Manhattan to North Carolina and back, storing the firearms in luggage. After bringing the guns up to New York, Wright would move them to friends’ homes and kept them parked at the homes, the report said.

Wright would reportedly set prices at $1,000 to $2,500 per gun, while Sparkes, who would meet a customer in a car, conduct the sale in Cambria Heights and bring cash to Wright who was parked nearby monitoring the transactions, the report said.

“Today’s charges are a stark reminder that high-powered, illegal firearms continue to proliferate and circulate in our communities, and the NYPD investigators and our law enforcement partners are doing the dangerous work of preventing them from getting into criminals’ hands on the street, ” NYPD Interim Commissioner Thomas Donlon said.