Philadelphia Resident Gets Prison For Illegal Gun Transactions In Bucks County
by Alex Lloyd Gross
If you buy a gun for someone that cannot own a gun, you are going to prison. Darryl Kaheim Baker, of Philadelphia, had a clean police record. He was able to buy guns and he thought it would be a good idea to supply guns to convicted felons and others that could not legally buy one. That decision just cost him 10-20 years of his life.
He plead guilty this week to to 23 counts each of making false statements on firearm purchase forms and criminal conspiracy and one count each of on one count of dealing in proceeds of unlawful activities, firearm ownership – duty of other persons and illegal sales of a firearm and illegal sales of firearms to an ineligible transferee. All the counts are felonies.
Police said the guns, 23 in all were distributed to people that used them in crimes. Eight were recovered in Philadelphia, some were even left behind at crime scenes. At least one had an altered or obliterated serial number. police said that of those firearms, 19 were purchased in Bucks County gun stores in Bristol Township, Upper Southampton Township, Lower Southampton Township, and Warminster Township. The other guns were bought in Philadelphia.