Vijay Hak now faces 14 criminal charges — nine for firearms, five for drugs — after what started as a Saturday morning 911 call spiraled into one of the more jaw-dropping busts Westport has seen in recent memory.

Officers rushed to a residence on Eddy Drive at approximately 7:57 a.m. on February 21 after a caller reported a female had been shot.
They found the teenage victim with a gunshot wound to her hand. She was rushed to a Rhode Island hospital. Her injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.
Hak was identified as the shooter. A shotgun was sitting in the first-floor kitchen. He complied with officers and was detained without incident.
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That should have been the end of it. It wasn't.
Detectives obtained a search warrant for the home — and what they found made the shooting look like the least of Hak's problems.
Inside: a large quantity of psilocybin mushrooms. Bags of Xanax. The haul was so big that detectives actually stopped the search, went back to a judge, and got a second warrant specifically for narcotics.
When they went back in, it got worse.
More drugs — codeine, Adderall, and tapentadol — bringing the total to five different controlled substances across four drug classes. And tucked in with the rest of it: a Polymer 80 "ghost gun," an untraceable, privately assembled firearm with no serial number.

Oh, and the shotgun he allegedly used to shoot the girl? Stolen. He's been charged with receiving stolen property over $1,200 on top of everything else.
The full charge sheet reads like a criminal justice final exam: assault and battery by discharging a firearm, possession of a large capacity firearm, possession of a large capacity feeding device, two counts of improper storage, possession of ammunition, discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a building, possession of a shotgun without a license, receiving stolen property — and five separate drug distribution charges, one for each substance found.
He is 19 years old.
The investigation remains active.

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