Aja Marie Morris, 28, of Philadelphia, was sentenced to five years of probation after pleading guilty to participating in a gun trafficking organization that operated in Montgomery, Bucks, Lehigh, Lackawanna and Philadelphia counties between 2020 and 2023, Mainline Media News reported.

Morris has been charged with participating in corrupt organizations, dealing in proceeds of unlawful activities, making false written statements on federal firearms purchase forms and conspiracy.

She was one of three people charged in connection with the network which illegally purchase or transferred 40 firearms. Her boyfriend at the time, Kenneth Darien Lyles III, 31, of Philadelphia, and another conspirator are already serving time in state prison, Mainline Media said.

Only six of the 20 firearms purchased by Lyles have been recovered, including one allegedly used by a suspect in a bank robbery in Jenkintown.

The gun purchases were made at firearms dealers in Montgomery, Bucks, Lehigh, Philadelphia and Lackawanna counties.

The Montgomery County Detective Bureau’s Violent Crime Unit, the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General’s Gun Violence Task Force and the Philadelphia Police Department investigated the gun trafficking organization.

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