The Jerusalem District Attorney's Office today submitted to the city's district court an indictment against Rami Masri and Imran Masarva, Tira residents aged 50 and 37, after they committed weapons offenses and were caught by undercover police agents.
According to the indictment, filed through attorney Yifat Pinhasi-Nevo, the defendants sold to the agents weapons and weapon accessories for thousands of shekels. In one case, the police agents met with the defendants and were sold a gun and cartridges. Immediately after the sale, they were arrested by a police force that was near the scene. When one of the defendants was brought to the investigation offices in Jerusalem, while handcuffed by his hands and feet, he grabbed a phone seized by the police, grabbed it and broke it, knowing that the phone might be used as evidence in a judicial proceeding, and in order to prevent its use as evidence.
The indictment attributes to the defendants the commission of crimes of arms trafficking, carrying arms, and attempting to destroy evidence. The prosecution asks the court to order the arrest of the accused until the end of the legal proceedings against them.