Instagram post by aspiring rapper leads to biggest gun haul in the history of NY

In a glorious display of stupidity, an aspiring US-based rapper inadvertently aided the largest haul of guns in New York City’s history by uploading pictures of firearms on his Instagram account.

Matthew Best, aka Neno Best, a Brooklyn-based rapper, has been credited for unintentionally helping the New York Police Department (NYPD) to haul in 254 firearms and make 19 arrests. This is by far the largest gun bust in the history of New York City. Best, who is quite prolific on Instagram with over 1,500 image shares, would regularly upload hipster-filtered pictures of guns and large bunches of currency notes, at times even claiming that he was selling weapons out of his recording studio.

Busted!

While most of these posts were deleted by Best at an unknown time, it ended up alerting NYPD’s narcotics investigators, who then passed on the issue to undercover officers. The images on Instagram set out a chain of events leading to the discovery of a large gun-trafficking ring that spread over multiple states in the US.

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