Tamir Hartsock, 25, of Upper Dublin Township, was sentenced to 18 to 36 years in prison for gun trafficking and a straw purchase scheme involving 16 firearms, the Pottstown Mercury reported today.

Four of the firearms involved in the scheme have been recovered and connected to multiple homicides and other violent crimes in Philadelphia through NIBIN fired cartridge casing (FCC) leads, according to the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office.

Hartsock was arrested in May 2023 on numerous felony charges following an investigation which involved multiple agencies, including the Montgomery County Detective Bureau’s Violent Crimes Unit (VCU), the ATF, Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General’s Gun Violence Task Force, Upper Dublin Township Police, Marple Township Police and Philadelphia Police.

The investigation began in April 2023 after Philadelphia Police recovered firearms from people not allowed to possess a firearm and those guns were linked back to purchases by Hartsock, which is indicative of straw purchasing and gun trafficking.

Photo: Montco DA