A Connecticut man was arrested on felony weapon and drug charges after allegedly selling guns and cocaine on multiple occasions at a gas station on the Hutchinson River Parkway.
Michael Larriuz, 49, of Greenwich, was arraigned in White Plains City Court in mid June on charges of first- and third-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance and first-degree criminal sale of a firearm.
On Tuesday, July 7, the Westchester District Attorney’s Office announced that Larriuz’s arrest was the culmination of a sting investigation in conjunction with the FBI Westchester Safe Street Task Force, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office and the Greenwich Police Department. It resulted in the recovery of 25 guns, including 22 ghost guns, multiple large-capacity magazines and six ounces of cocaine.
Ghost guns are untraceable weapons made with 3D printers or cobbled together with unfinished gun parts. The DA’s Office said that from 2024 to 2025, the number of ghost guns recovered by police agencies in the county increased by 33%.
According to the felony complaint, on 10 occasions between Dec. 17, 2025, and May 27, 2026, Larriuz provided guns, drugs or both to a confidential informant working with an investigator at the Westchester District Attorney’s Office. The meetings took place at the Mobil gas station in the middle of the Hutchinson River Parkway on the White Plains-Harrison border.
The first-degree drug charge carries a maximum sentence of life in prison. It relates to a sale of more than two ounces of cocaine that Larriuz allegedly made to the informant on April 27. He is also accused of providing a Sig Sauer semi-automatic at that meeting.
The weapon charge requires the defendant to provide three or more guns within one year. The complaint accuses Larriuz of selling six semi-automatic pistols, two assault rifles and six magazines to the informant over the five months they were meeting.
In one instance in January, according to the complaint, Larriuz allegedly sold cocaine and a short-barreled assault rifle. But the rifle was missing a piece necessitating another meeting the next day when the full rifle was provided.
A lawyer for Larriuz could not be reached.
Larriuz had been previously arrested in Yonkers following a traffic stop in January 2025 when he was allegedly driving without a license and with an improper license plate, according to Yonkers court records. He also faced a misdemeanor drug charge after he allegedly had a small bag of cocaine in his pocket at the time he was stopped.
A warrant was issued in September after Larriuz failed to appear in Yonkers City Court. The warrant remained active during the time he was allegedly dealing the guns and drugs.
Larriuz remains at the Westchester County jail on $100,000 bail and is due back in White Plains City Court on July 15.
This article originally appeared on Rockland/Westchester Journal News: Weapon, drug charges after alleged sales of guns, cocaine on Hutch
Reporting by Jonathan Bandler, Rockland/Westchester Journal News / Rockland/Westchester Journal News
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