Crime & Safety
Rochester man sentenced to serve 156 months in prison for stealing guns
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Rochester, New York — A 36-year-old Rochester man was sentenced to 13 years for stealing guns from a Parma gun shop in 2018.
According to the police report, Luis Marcano-Agosto, was convicted of theft of firearms from a Federal Firearms Licensee and possession of firearms by a convicted felon. He was sentenced to serve 156 months in prison. Marcano-Agosto was also ordered to pay $41,500 in restitution to August Chinappi, the victim of the burglary and the former owner of Chinappi’s Firearms & Supplies.
According to Assistant U.S. Attorney Brett Harvey, that Marcano-Agosto, along with co-defendants Dakota Sarfaty and Marcos Guzman, broke into Chinappi’s Firearms & Supplies – a gun store located at 5016 West Ridge Road – in the early morning on Aug. 16, 2018, and stole a total of 87 firearms.
Investigators say Sarfaty went inside the gun store basement through the hole in the wall and, together with Marcano-Agosto and Guzman and stole the guns. Later, Guzman, Sarfaty and Marcano-Agosto sold many of the firearms on the streets of Rochester. Sarfaty also previously broke into Chinappi’s Firearms & Supplies and stole six firearms on Aug. 12, 2018.
Approximately 31 of the stolen firearms have been recovered by law enforcement. The remainder of the stolen firearms have not yet been recovered.
Guzman was convicted and sentenced to serve 240 months in prison and Sarfaty was convicted and sentenced to serve 175 months in prison.
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