Another naval person was not thinking clearly:

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Another Norfolk sailor awaits sentencing on gun charge

By: Geoff Ziezulewicz   2 days ago

A Virginia-based sailor pleaded guilty will be sentenced at the end of the summer for her role in transferring five semi-automatic handguns to family and friends in New Jersey, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Engineman 3rd Class Tesora Amanda Cortes Trejorojas, 24, pleaded guilty on Feb. 26 to conspiring with others to transport guns to New Jersey that she bought in Norfolk, according to court records.

The November 2017 plan involved Trejorojas buying the guns for her cousin, Azia Sinclair, and Sinclair’s boyfriend, Shyheim"Shy" Tyson, according to court records.

Sinclair and Trejorojas began texting in November 2017 about a potential straw purchase after Trejorojas said she didn’t need a license to buy a gun because she was in the military and Sinclair told her it was taking too long for her to get a license to do so, according to court records.

On Nov. 5, 2017, Sincalir asked Trejorojas if she could buy a gun for Sinclair’s sister as well, court records show.

“I told her ima (sic) get one and her crazy ass got excited like tell cousin I want some too,” Sinclair texted Trejorojas, according to court records.

Trejorojas’ attorney, Jonathan Marshall, did not return requests for comment.

Sinclair and Tyson headed down to Norfolk later that month and the three shopped at a local gun shop before the duo headed back to New Jersey with the firearms.

“0mg (sic) please don’t be carving bodies lmfaooooo my name on them thangsssss lol,” Trejorojas texted to her cousin.

“Lol nah we not crazy ass,” Sinclair replied.

About five hours later, police in Orange, New Jersey, responded to the sound of gunfire. They arrested a suspect who had one of the guns Sinclair and Tyson transported back.

Police searched Sinclair’s home a few days later and she admitted to getting the guns in Norfolk and taking them back to New Jersey, authorities say.

Armed with a search warrant for Sinclair’s cellphone, authorities discovered a video on it showing Tyson defacing the serial number on one of the guns Trejorojas purchased about 35 minutes after he and Sinclair returned to New Jersey, according to court records.

On June 7, 2017, Tyson had been arrested and charged in New Jersey Superior Court with conspiracy to commit aggravated assault, two counts of aggravated assault, two counts of unlawful possession of a handgun and two counts of possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose.

Two months later, he was indicted by an Essex County grand jury.

Sinclair is awaiting trial but on Oct. 11, 2018, her boyfriend Tyson pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiring to transport and receive in New Jersey the firearms that were bought in Virginia.

The judge imposed a sentence of 37 months of imprisonment. But Tyson isn’t in federal prison.

On Jan. 28, Tyson, 23, began serving a minimum sentence of 51 months without parole at the Garden State Youth Correctional Facility following convictions on both the 2017 New Jersey illegal gun possession charge and a separate aggravated assault count stemming from an incident later that year, according to New Jersey prison records and federal court documents.

Trejorojas is scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 25. She faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Trejorojas remains on active duty and has been stationed at Naval Support Activity Hampton Roads since late 2017.

Before that she was assigned to the aircraft carrier George H.W. Bush.

A shipmate on the Bush, Julio Fernando Pino, 26, unlawfully used his military discount to buy and resell guns from 2015 to 2017 to buyers nationwide, including a juvenile, a drug-addicted armed robber, a drug dealer trafficking in stolen firearms, according to federal prosecutors.

He pleaded to one count of unlawful interstate transfer of a firearm on Oct. 22 and exited the Navy as an aviation ordnanceman third class in December, according to court and military records.

Pino is slated to spend two-and-a-half years in federal prison.

Gotta feeling this may be only the beginning.

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On Jan. 28, Tyson, 23, began serving a minimum sentence of 51 months without parole at the Garden State Youth Correctional Facility

23? Youth facility? What constitutes or is the definition of "youth" in that fucked up, commie state?