Man Manufactured 30 'Ghost Guns' In South Jersey: Prosecutor

A Burlington County man has been arrested, and 30 guns were seized following a multi-agency investigation, Atlantic County Prosecutor Damon G. Tyner announced. Gregory Carleton, 56, of Marlton is accused of manufacturing guns that didn’t have serial numbers, which he referred to as “ghost guns.”

Carleton was arrested on Wednesday, Jan. 17, by members of the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office Gangs, Guns and Narcotics Unit, with assistance from the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office, the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, and Hammonton Police Department, in Hammonton.

Following his arrest, the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office – Gangs, Guns and Narcotics Unit, New Jersey State Police TEAMS Unit, Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office, The Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, Hammonton Police Department, and Evesham Township Police Department executed a search warrant at Carleton’s home in Marlton.

Detectives said they found 23 handguns and five rifles/shotguns during a search of the house. The following day, an additional search warrant was issued for Carleton’s Mercedes-Benz. Detectives said they recovered two more handguns from the vehicle. Detectives said he was also in possession of “equipment, devices, tools, mechanisms, including undocumented handgun and rifle uppers and lowers, frames, bolts, and receivers that Carleton was utilizing to make complete and operable firearms.”

Altogether, he was charged with three counts of second-degree unlawful possession of a handgun without a permit, three counts of fourth-degree unlawful manufacture of a gun or other weapon and fourth-degree unlawful sale of a gun or other weapon.

The attached image of Gregory Carleton was provided by the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office