According to law officials, the brother of Hollywood actress Julia Fox was arrested. At his Manhattan residence on Wednesday morning in possession of phantom firearms, illegal substances, and explosives.
Police and sources said they detained 30-year-old Christopher Fox after searching his apartment. On the 200 block of East 84th Street and discovering drug-making equipment. Including a pressure cooker, chemicals, parts for a ghost gun, and a pill-pressing machine.
An NYPD spokesman noted that while pressure cookers and related chemicals are more commonly associated with making bombs. They can also be utilised in the production of illegal drugs.
When carrying out a search warrant related to an ongoing investigation. The NYPD’s Ghost Gun Unit made the seizure, according to the authorities. Officials concluded there was no link to terrorist activity.
Fox was charged with drug possession, making machine guns and rapid firing mod devices. Making hazardous instruments, having weapons and firearms illegally, and using drug paraphernalia, according to the police.
Christopher Fox, the brother of actress and model Julia Fox, was arrested by police. After they claimed to have found firearms, drugs, and perhaps explosives at his home.
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Brother Of Julia Fox busted with ghost guns, drugs
At his arraignment, prosecutors said that Julia Fox’s brother had a 3D printing weapons business out of his Manhattan flat. Where he had stashed a large number of ghost gun components.
Prosecutors stated that Christopher Fox posed a flight risk. So the judge set bail at $450,000 cash and ordered him to surrender his passport at the hearing. He was arrested with his father, Thomas, on Wednesday.
American Disabilities Act of Manhattan Cyril Heron claims that law enforcement officers discovered a large number of 3D printed firearm components while searching his residence.
A rifle of the assault weapon variety was found in the defendant’s possession, Heron added.
In the father-and-son team’s centre of operations, they had printed silencers, high-capacity magazines, upper receivers, ammo, and more for ghost guns, which are firearms without recordable serial numbers and are frequently sold in parts.
The New York Police Department discovered not only missing components for firearms. But also records confirming the existence of these missing components.
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Police On the Case
Although a complete investigation is still underway. The police have stated that they believe there is “no apparent relation to terrorism.” And that Mr. Fox’s detention is connected to a “long-term investigation” into narcotics and phantom weapons.
Ghost guns are unregistered, handmade firearms that don’t have serial number. And may be constructed piecemeal using a drill from online or 3-D printed parts.
On Wednesday morning, law enforcement officials entered an apartment at 200 East 84th Street to conduct a search in accordance with a valid search warrant. Located just east of Park Avenue, this Yorkville co-op building boasts a rooftop deck with 360-degree views. According to property records, the average sale price of a two-bedroom apartment there is about $1.8 million.
When asked if Mr. Fox was still in police custody, officials were evasive. The arraignment date for him has not yet been set, according to a representative from the Manhattan district attorney’s office.
Charges On Christopher Fox
Mr. Fox has been charged with several crimes, one of which is criminal possession of a firearm. On Wednesday, the police announced they detained a second suspect who will not be formally arrested. Also, police have refused to corroborate rumours that he was the father of the Fox children.
The number of “ghost weapons” seized by the New York Police Department has increased steadily. Over the past several years, from 263 in 2021 to 463 last year, a growth of over 76%. According to a police spokesperson, the force has found and confiscated 36 “ghost weapons” so far this year.
The agency stated in a press release that it would “continue to fight vigorously” against illicit guns, including the “increasingly prevalent” ghost guns, which it defined as “illegal, untraceable but fully working weapons.”
Two lawsuits were launched in June 2022 by state and city officials in an effort to prevent the spread of “ghost guns” in accordance with a state law that was passed to make the firearms business answerable for gun violence. The lawsuits claimed that the state’s worrying gun violence epidemic was exacerbated by the unregulated unlawful sales of gun parts.
Conclusion
When carrying out a search warrant related to an ongoing investigation, the NYPD’s Ghost Gun Unit made the seizure, according to the authorities. Also, a terrorist link was ruled out by the authorities.
The police said that Fox was in possession of illegal substances, and that he also built machine guns, rapid-fire mod devices, dangerous instruments, weapons, firearms, and drug paraphernalia.
As of Thursday afternoon, accusations against Fox remained pending.
Also, authorities said they arrested Fox’s father, who also lives there, during the raid but eventually released him.
A spokesman for the NYPD said, “We will continue to fight fiercely against illicit guns.” This includes both legally produced firearms and the growing problem of “ghost guns,” which are illegal but perfectly functional handguns that cannot be located or traced.
The NYPD issued a statement reading in part, “The NYPD will continue to fight fiercely against illicit guns, against the gradual spread of traditionally-manufactured firearms and against the increasing quantities of illegal, untraceable but fully functioning weapons known as ghost guns.”
He has never been arrested before, and no date has been set for his arraignment.
