He bought stolen cop guns direct from a cop — and now he’s going to prison for 20 years.
Ivan Chavez, sentenced today in Manhattan Supreme Court, was the kingpin at the center of a guns and drugs conspiracy that ensnared a dot-com millionaires and an allegedly crooked East Village cop.
Chavez, 24, had pleaded guilty last month to purchasing five guns from former Ninth Precinct officer Nicholas Mina, a pain-killer addicted cop whose own case is pending.
Chavez had bought the five guns — Mina’s own weapon and four others Mina allegedly stole from police lockers — to square Mina’s drug debts, prosecutors have said.
Four additional firearms — including a Tech 9 and a sawed-off shotgun — were recovered from Chavez’s apartment in Woodhaven, prosecutors have said. Also seized from Chavez’s apartment were some 60,000 pain pills allegedly sold to him by Jennifer Sultan, a former Manhattan dot-com phenom turned alleged drug dealer.