Prosecutors: Newspaper editor used charity ads to get guns illegally

By Jennifer Cruz

Some of the 25 guns found at DeMulle’s home and office. (Photo: Department of Justice)
The 75-year-old editor of a Los-Angeles area community newspaper was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison Monday for illegal possession of firearms and ammunition.
According to an indictment, David “Doc” DeMulle, of Tujunga, was found to be in possession of 25 firearms and hundreds of pounds – not rounds – of ammunition. Due to felony convictions of perjury and welfare fraud in 1990, DeMulle is prohibited from possessing such items.
DeMulle pleaded guilty to being a convicted felon in possession of firearms in 2016 and has been free on bond since his arrest in 2015. According to Thom Mrozek, spokesman for the U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, DeMulle plans to file an appeal.
DeMulle’s arrest came as the result of an investigation which was sparked by an advertisement in The Foothills Paper, a Sunland/Tujunga newspaper in which DeMulle is the editor-in-chief. The newspaper published a “Guns for Haiti Quake Relief” ad, in which the publication asked for gun donations. According to court documents, these guns were to be sold and the proceeds donated to Haitian earthquake victims.
Undercover officers with the Los Angeles Police Department responded to the

Source: Guns.com