Man Indicted After Menacing Suffolk Cops With Ghost Machine Gun: Prosecutors

BAY SHORE, NY — A 19-year-old from Virginia who prosecutors said had thousands of pressed fentanyl pills, hundreds of methamphetamine pills, and several illegal guns was indicted Tuesday.

On May 7, 2021, Shanti Felton was wanted by the Prince William County Police Department in Virginia, for armed robbery. Long Island officials later learned Felton was hiding at a Bay Shore home, according to an investigation between the district attorney’s office, Suffolk police and U.S. Marshals Service.

When law enforcement approached the home Oct. 19, Felton tried to escape through a basement window with a fully automatic, blue and black, ghost gun, Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney said. After a brief standoff, Felton dropped the loaded gun and surrendered, officials said.

Officers searched the home and found: two loaded firearms, in addition to the ghost machine gun Felton was armed with, prosecutors said. They also found more than 4,000 blue pressed fentanyl pills, 220 orange pressed methamphetamine pills, over $5,500 in cash and four cellphones.

Felton is charged with:

• First-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance
• Third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance
• Second-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance
• Menacing a police officer
• Three counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon.
• Four counts of third-degree criminal possession of a weapon.
• Criminal possession of a ghost gun

“This defendant is an allegedly dangerous fugitive who not only was wanted in Virginia for robbery, but when found here in Suffolk County menaced a police officer with an unserialized illegally modified firearm. Thankfully, no one was hurt,” said Tierney. “The great work of the Suffolk County Police Department and the United States Marshals Service has ensured that this defendant was taken off our streets.”

Felton faces up to 20 years behind bars on the top charge of first-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance.

On Tuesday morning, the judge ordered Felton jailed on $2 million cash, $4 million bond or $6 million partially secured bond.

Felton is being represented by the Legal Aid Society. His next court date is Nov. 11.

Patch has reached out to the Legal Aid Society for comment.