Police: Man planned to trade assault gun for heroin
BRIDGEPORT -- A city man has been charged with trying to sell or trade a semi-automatic handgun for heroin.
After a call from a confidential informant, police were dispatched shortly before 11 p.m. Monday to the T-Market, 1482 Reservoir Ave., and found Victor Crespo, 37, of Platt Street, in a white van. An Intratec DC9 handgun and 9mm Lugar ammunition was allegedly found inside the vehicle.
The Intratec model is among 19 handguns named in a 1994 federal assault weapons ban.
The informant described Crespo, his van and their location, telling police the suspect had approached him at the store and offered to sell "an Uzi-type" weapon for $750, according to a police report.
Crespo was arrested without incident and charged with carrying a pistol without a permit, having weapons in a motor vehicle and possession of an assault weapon, police said.
He allegedly told police that he had agreed to meet a man later that night in a hallway of the Greene Homes housing project to trade the gun for heroin.
His wife, Judy Crespo, 38, was charged with interfering with an officer because she ignored orders and tried to flee when officers approached the van, police said.
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