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A Philadelphia sheriff's deputy has been arrested and charged with selling guns, two of which were allegedly used weeks earlier in a deadly shooting that killed a 14-year-old, to an FBI informant in the United States illegally.
Samir Ahmad, 29, is charged with firearms trafficking and selling firearms to someone unlawfully in the U.S., the Justice Department said.
The alleged gun sale occurred on Oct. 13 while he was employed as a deputy with the Philadelphia Sheriff's Office.
Both of the Glock handguns sold were traced by investigators and were found to have been used in a September shooting near Roxborough High School, which killed one teen and injured four others at the end of a football scrimmage, according to a detention memo.
Samir Ahmad, then a deputy with the Philadelphia Sheriff's Office, is seen on a hidden camera conducting an illegal gun sale with an FBI informant, prosecutors said. The two handguns he allegedly sold were used weeks earlier in a shooting that killed a teenager and injured four others, authorities said. (Department of Justice)
The gun transaction occurred after the shooting, prosecutors said. A Justice Department spokesperson told Fox News Digital that prosecutors don't believe Ahmad sold guns to the suspects involved in the school shooting.
Authorities have not determined how the weapons used in the shooting ended up being sold to the informant.
Ahmad initially sold a firearm to the informant in April, prosecutors said.
During the Oct. 13 exchange, which was captured with hidden video and audio equipment, the informant told Ahmad that he was in the United States illegally and that he would be deported if he was caught with firearms, federal prosecutors said.
"You don’t got to worry about none of that," Ahmad allegedly told him.
He made $3,000 from the sale of the guns and ammunition, prosecutors said. He was arrested on Oct. 19 and has since been fired.
Federal prosecutors said Samir Ahmad made $3,000 from the gun sale. (Department of Justice)
"As alleged, Samir Ahmad abused his authority – to the greatest extent possible – as a sworn law enforcement officer," said U.S. Attorney Jacqueline Romero. "The defendant was allegedly illegally selling firearms on the street to at least one person who was not permitted to possess them, adding fuel to the already-incendiary fire of deadly gun violence in the City of Philadelphia."
After the purchase, the informant handed over the Glock handguns and ammunition to the FBI. The weapons were found to have come from Georgia.
Ahmad was hired by the sheriff's office in February 2018, a department spokesperson told Fox News Digital.
"The defendant was terminated from the Sheriff’s Office because of his historically poor record of attendance at work," prosecutors said. "Plainly, this fact suggests that the defendant made more money through the illegal sale of firearms and drugs than he did showing up for his job as a sworn law enforcement officer."
One of the handguns illegally sold by Samir Ahmad is pictured, prosecutors said. (Department of Justice)
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Ahmad faces up to 15 years in prison.
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