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Lowell man pleads guilty to selling guns, machineguns and fake Adderall pills laced with meth, officials say
Laboratory testing confirmed that the 'Adderall' pills Chan sold were homemade methamphetamine pills mixed with caffeine and made to look like the real pharmaceutical drug, prosecutors said.
Chan trafficked the counterfeit pills with an alleged co-conspirator who was a member of the Asian Boyz gang, a group distributing methamphetamine across the Merrimack Valley region, prosecutors said.
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In February, a 39-year-old man who was a member of the Asian Boyz gang was
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Chan was allegedly recorded saying that he could make devices called 'switches,' which can be installed on pistols to make them fully automatic, prosecutors said.
'I let my boys test the switch,' Chan allegedly said in a message to a police source.
Chan also allegedly sent videos showing how to install the 'switches' and a video of a person using the switch to shoot a fully automatic handgun into the air.
The investigation was a collaboration of local and federal law enforcement.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Fred M. Wyshak, III of the Organized Crime & Gang Unit is prosecuting the case.
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'This case is part of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), a program bringing together all levels of law enforcement and the communities they serve to reduce gun violence and other violent crime, and to make our neighborhoods safer for everyone,' a joint statement from Foley's Office, the Boston Division FBI, and Lowell Police Department said.
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