Drug Crimes committed with a Gun

Gun Charges and Drug Defense Lawyers
Firearm and Weapon Charges • Philadelphia and Pennsylvania

If you were arrested for a drug crime and the officers found a weapon on you, your friend, in your car or in your home, you may face a new, harsher mandatory minimum sentence for committing a drug crime with a gun. Pennsylvania judges are invoking this mandatory 5-year minimum jail sentence in relation to drug crimes, so you need an experienced weapons charge attorney on your side. Contact our gun and firearm charges defense lawyers at Hark & Hark.

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This new mandatory minimum law is extreme, excessive and could be devastating to any person who is caught hanging around with friends who are selling drugs in their houses, on the streets, or in cars. This law may have an especially severe impact in marijuana offenses: no matter the type of illegal drug, the mandatory minimum sentence applies. Contact Hark & Hark to talk with an experienced weapon charges and drug defense lawyer to learn more about this new law and how it may apply to your drug and weapons charges.

In Philadelphia, the District Attorney's Office will work hard to ensure that judges use the 5-year minimum punishment for firearm charges in drug cases. The prosecution will no longer give defendants a guilty plea offer of probation if a weapon was possessed at the time of arrest for in relation to selling marijuana, crack, cocaine, heroin or PCP: People arrested for drug and weapon charges will most likely face jail sentences.

At Hark & Hark, we understand the reasons behind this law, but we know that innocent people are being affected as well. If you were arrested for drug possession, possession with the intent to deliver (PWID), drug trafficking, or any other drug crime, and if the officers found any type of firearm or gun, we can help you avoid gun charges.

• Did an officer search your home or car after your arrest and find a handgun or other firearm?
• Were you safely secured in the officer's police car when he searched your's or your friend's car?
• Were the narcotics found in the car near a gun in your car or your friend's car?
• Did anyone make any furtive movements in the car while the Police officers are walking up to the car windows?
• Were drugs and guns found in your home, but you had no knowledge of them?
• Do you face more serious drug charges because you allegedly used a gun when you committed the drug crime?
• Is a roommate's or family member's gun being mistakenly included in a list of your possessions after your arrest?
• Were drugs and a gun found in an illegal search of your home or car?

Depending on the facts of your case, we file motions to suppress illegally seized evidence of drugs and guns found in illegal traffic stops and illegal searches. We also defend your rights and use thorough investigation techniques to determine whether you could have known about the drugs or guns. In cases where the prosecution does not prove with a preponderance of evidence, a judge has the discretion and option to not invoke the 5-year mandatory minimum sentence. Our former prosecutors provide skilled representation to protect your rights.

At Hark & Hark, we represent clients in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Our criminal defense attorneys try cases in the City of Philadelphia, Chester County, Delaware County, and Montgomery County. We handle cases in each of the county courthouses in Media, West Chester, and Norristown. In New Jersey, we handle cases in every county, especially in Camden County, Burlington County, Gloucester County, Cumberland County, Atlantic County, Cape May County, Huntingdon County, and Ocean County and all of the townships therein. We handle every case from the initial arrest and surrender, through bail proceeding, into preliminary hearings and indictments in New Jersey, to trials and appeal.

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