A Camden County man admitted Tuesday he sold more than 100 handguns to drug dealers and other felons as part of a large arms trafficking ring that bought weapons at gun shows and shops in nearby states and funneled them to New Jersey.

Fr'Neil Hickson, 38, of Cherry Hill, pleaded guilty in federal court in Camden to one count of conspiracy to deal in firearms without a federal firearms license, the U.S. Attorney's Office said in a statement.

The guns were bought and sold mainly from December 2009 to April 2013.

He is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 1 and faces up to five years in prison.

Hickson was convicted of possession of firearms by a convicted felon and served about 10 months of a federal prison sentence in Atlanta. He was held in custody because he was under federal indictment in New Jersey.

Hickson got most of the guns from Joshua Jackson, who obtained them by buying them from unlicensed dealers at gun shows, mostly in Ohio. Some were bought at gun stores in that state as well as in Virginia and Pennsylvania by people dispatched by Jackson, according to the indictment.

Jackson, of Willingboro, and another co-conspirator are already serving six years terms in federal prison. In all, the trio bought, transferred and sold about 300 guns.

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