CLARKSVILLE, TN (WSMV) – New York City Police indicted a Clarksville college student for selling 73 firearms to an undercover officer.

On Wednesday, Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced the indictment of 23-year-old Shakor Rodriguez, originally from the Bronx, NY. Rodriguez, attending Austin Peay State University, has been indicted on hundreds of counts of criminal sale of a firearm, criminal possession of a firearm, and related charges for trafficking 73 weapons and high-capacity magazines to the Bronx and Manhattan.

The investigation dubbed “Operation Overnight Express” took place between July 2020 and Dec. 2021 in New York. According to the investigation, Rodriguez sold an undercover officer 73 firearms, of which 59 were loaded and more than 40 high-capacity magazines, including multiple “drum” magazines.

Authorities said the undercover typically paid between $1,000 and $1,500 per gun.

“The defendant allegedly brought these semi-automatic weapons and high-capacity magazines up from the south, sometimes transporting them in a duffle bag by bus,” D.A.Clark explained. “Dozens of the firearms were loaded, and four are considered assault weapons. The NYPD worked diligently to intercept these deadly weapons before they hit our streets.”

Rodriguez was arraigned on January 24 on 79 counts, including the criminal sale of a firearm, criminal possession of a weapon, criminal possession of a firearm, and possession of ammunition.

“We have to make sure that we’re working together, and this is not a New York phenomenon. This is a national phenomenon,” New York Governor Kathy Hochul explained. “And we now have to pull together all the tools in a concerted way, not just deploying what we have available to us here in the state of New York, which is exceptional, but also saying, where are these guns coming from? They’re not originating here in the state of New York.”

Investigators are still looking into how Rodriguez obtained the guns and where they were purchased.