Shabazz when released from jail
KINGSTON – Local community activist Ismail Shabazz, formerly known as
Gary Faulkner, was released from the Ulster County Jail on Tuesday following
his arrest in late June.
Shabazz was released on $100,000 bond, said Ulster County Jail Warden
John Becker.
He had been held in jail on charges of felony weapons sales.
At the time of his arrest, authorities said he had become a person of
interest in a federal investigation in 2013 when information was developed
that he had recruited members of the Bloods street gang into the New Black
Panthers Party in Kingston and was allegedly advocating violence against
police officers.
In the ensuing year, federal agents purchased six illegal weapons from
Shabazz out of his home in Kingston including two assault rifles, two
loaded handguns, an unloaded revolver, and a sawed-off shotgun with its
serial number defaced.
