On Wednesday, March 8, Julia Fox‘s father and brother and were arrested Wednesday after the New York Police Department raided a residence following a search warrant related to an ongoing investigation into ghost guns and narcotics.
During the raid police found cocaine, heroine and multiple banned substances in their apartment, according to reports.
Once inside, officers found several ghost guns — which are guns without traceable serial numbers — as well as pills, a pill press, pressure cookers, fentanyl, chloroform, heroin, propane, formaldehyde, and materials often used to make explosives.
Thousands of dollars of high-end wine bottles were also reportedly recovered.
Police were apparently tipped off about their alleged activities following ‘suspicious online purchases,’ and reports from neighbors that the men would go in and out of their apartment wearing hazmat suits.
‘At this time, the matter is believed to be contained, with no apparent nexus to terrorism,’ a NYPD spokesperson told the New York Post.
‘The NYPD will continue to fight relentlessly against illegal guns – against both the steady proliferation of traditionally-manufactured firearms and the increasingly prevalent numbers of illegal, untraceable but fully functioning weapons known as ghost guns.’
The New York Post reports that the raid of Christopher and Thomas Fox’s apartment was part of a larger ghost gun investigation.
‘The NYPD’s Ghost Gun Team seized several ghost gun parts, as well as equipment for pressing narcotics pills,’ an NYPD spokesperson said in a statement.
‘Team members also discovered materials typically used as components in explosives, including pressure cookers and various chemicals, which can also be used for manufacturing narcotics. … The found chemicals were deemed non-hazardous.’
