Eight Washington Teens Found With Cache of Stolen Weapons

This week, the Cowlitz County Sheriff’s Office in Washington carried out the largest gun seizure in decades.

But this wasn’t a crackdown on a ring of seasoned thieves, Chief Criminal Deputy Charlie Rosenzweig said a group of teenagers is responsible for stealing more than 50 guns and other property from an elderly man who is also under investigation for his criminal cache of weapons.

The teenagers allegedly broke into a shed in rural Castle Rock where the guns were stored by their owner, an 87-year-old Portland man. They were among 440 guns — many of which police say likely are illegal, fully automatics — the man had stored there and which deputies seized.

“Looking through the building, it appears he was a sergeant, an airborne ranger in the Army,” Rosenzweig said, adding that there were several awards for his military service and for his target shooting inside the shed in addition to reloading equipment and ammunition. “All indications are this was his hobby.”

“Do we think that they had some bad intentions? Absolutely not. They committed a crime, they committed a serious crime. They’re going to be held responsible for that crime,” Rosenzweig said, adding that there’s no indication that this is related …Read the Rest

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