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Stolen property recovered from gun store in Air Force raid
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LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
An Air Force raid conducted at a central valley gun store Friday was meant to recover stolen property, an Air Force official said Sunday.
Linda Card, spokeswoman with the Air Force's Office of Special Investigations based in Quantico, Va., said investigators who conducted Friday afternoon's raid at the gun store recovered property stolen from Nellis Air Force Base.
"It was nothing lethal," Card said. "There were no weapons involved."
She said she didn't know exactly what was recovered but said the store owner was interviewed and has been cooperative.
"Whatever it was came from Nellis, and they've given it back to Nellis," Card said.
Card said more interviews will be conducted on Wednesday. She described the investigation as ongoing.
The gun store, Citadel Gun & Safe, is at 4305 S. Dean Martin Drive, near Flamingo Road.
Card said officials conducted the raid after obtaining two federal warrants for stolen Air Force property.
She said Las Vegas police and the FBI helped in the raid because there were many unknowns before the operation.
"They didn't know what they were dealing with," Card said. "As it turns out, it was nothing more than just stuff stolen from the base."
Witnesses saw SWAT officers shouting "search warrant" enter the store with guns drawn.
One witness, Joe Gold, whose Bahama Mamas cigar office sits behind the gun store in the business park off Interstate 15, described to the Review-Journal on Friday what he saw.
"We saw them break that door and everything," Gold said. "They were everywhere here."
Police were seen going in and out of an office behind the gun store that witnesses thought was not being used.
Contact reporter Antonio Planas at aplanas@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-4638.
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Wow.... I don't know all the details but it sounds like a overreaction to me!
Jerk.Waad I forgot about another Liberal funtime. Ruby Ridge you know that party when Bill instructed Janet to instruct the FBI to murder all unarmed women who happened to be holding babies. That might upsety some Americans, I see you point. Janet Reno should have a video game burning houses shooting women, drving tanks through walls. And the winner gets 5 minutes with Monica, those wacky Liberals!!
Well if you should be burned to death for having more than one lover how did Bill make it out? I just don't think the land of freedom means if you have a habit we don't approve of and your crisp bacon. Yea you right Webb funny how incinerating babies may bring out the worst in anyone. Did Janet Reno know Mcviegh?
For insight, let us now consider the results of the actions of one of Nacho's and klesb's fellow Branch Davidian sympathizers:
"The Oklahoma City bombing was a terrorist attack on April 19, 1995 aimed at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, a U.S. government office complex in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The bomb was detonated by Timothy McVeigh, who testified that he chose this date because it was the second anniversary of the deadly fire at Mount Carmel (Waco). McVeigh's attack claimed 168 lives and left over 800 injured. Until the September 11 attacks, it was the deadliest act of terrorism on U.S. soil, and remains the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in American history."
It's always helpful to know the kind of right-wing crazies who post here.
Interesting how the anti-government extremists like Nacho keep retelling self-serving snippets of their private versions of the Waco siege. For contrast, read this snippet:
"On August 5, 1989, Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh (at that point still legally named Vernon Howell) released the "new light" audiotape in which Koresh stated he had been told by God to procreate with the women in the group to establish a "House of David" of his "Special People." This involved married couples in the group dissolving their marriages and agreeing that only David Koresh could have sexual relations with the wives."
Marc Breault and Martin King, Inside the Cult, Signet, 1st Printing June 1993, ISBN 978-0-451-18029-2. (Australian edition entitled Preacher of Death).
At the same time the anti-government extremists said nothing recently about the president / prophet Warren Jeffs and his polygamists when the feds recently locked him up for life.
Why do you suppose that is?
Gosh miss those Democrat Days when you had odds on how many Children and women Janet Reno burned alive or shot that day. While Bill and Monica were on there knees praying. Isn't that what you do when your praying? Wait Liberals don't believe in God. Ha Ha ya gotta love those wacky Liberals.
Why was there a need to "break the door"??? The gun store has regular open hours, doesn't it? It reminds me of the BATFE show in Waco = the man they had a warrant for went to town regularly, but they staged a big raid on his home, rather than arresting him downtown. This resulted in the death of 72 men, women, and CHILDREN!
What business does the U S Military have in conducting, or participting in, raids within the United States?
Isn't this sort of thing something that should have been handled strictly by the FBI and local authorities? Are we now under martial law?
Nothing important just stuff stolen from the base..... Well thats reassuring, maybe we can get a group buy on F22s next time. Shut these clowns down. If they're operating and selling stolen military equipment on top of employing past employees converting guns illegally, then obviously they have a hard time abiding by the laws.
No Jack.Webb, I don't have to register. you are an adult, I was drunk, you sure have a pretty mouth, Cops said no harm but i should get a check up. Those liberal guys they said. I am ashamed. Felt good though!