Julia Fox’s brother Christopher Fox (“Uncut Gems”) was detained on a number of drug and weapon-related offenses. Fox, 30, was detained on Wednesday after the New York Police Department searched a home as part of an ongoing investigation into ghost firearms and drugs, the NYPD reported in an email to USA TODAY on Thursday. The apartment in Upper Manhattan is home to Fox.
The equipment for pressing drug pills was also taken by the NYPD’s Ghost Gun Unit, according to a statement from an NYPD spokesperson. The team also found a variety of compounds that can be used to make drugs as well as pressure cookers, which are frequently seen as parts of explosives. The discovered compounds were determined to be safe.
Fox was detained on seven separate counts, including manufacturing a machine gun, a rapid-fire mod device, a dangerous instrument, criminal possession of a weapon, criminal possession of a handgun, and criminal use of drug paraphernalia. The official further stated that there is “no obvious relation to terrorism” and that “the matter is thought to be contained.” A thorough investigation is in progress.
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Fox was one of the two people who were detained “as part of a continuous criminal investigation.” The other person’s identity was not made public in the Police statement. The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office did not respond to a request for comment regarding Fox’s custody situation on Thursday.
Guns are known as “ghost guns” are those that are “frequently constructed from kits, do not have serial numbers, and are sold without background checks, making them difficult to trace and simple to acquire by criminals,” according to a press release from the Department of Justice’s Office of Public Affairs.
The NYPD spokeswoman said, “NYPD will continue to fight tirelessly against illicit guns — against both the gradual proliferation of traditionally made firearms and the increasingly common quantities of illegal, untraceable but fully functional weapons known as ghost guns.
