Jadyn Trujillo
Keith Hughes does have a criminal record and did sell a weapon before his recent arrest, but his treatment by the courts raises questions about whether he was the gun trafficker authorities claimed.
In the days after the killing of a policeman last year, Keith Hughes was charged with being part of a gun-trafficking ring. But his claims, and the way courts handled them, suggest that, sometimes, the city’s anti-gun enforcement effort might sweep up people who aren’t smugglers.
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