arrested a 19-year-old woman they say was an accomplice to motorway gunman Stephen McDonald

Police have arrested a 19-year-old woman they say was an accomplice to motorway gunman Stephen McDonald in the lead up to the fatal police shooting of a young south Auckland courier driver.

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Daryon Walker died from a single gun shot wound, execution style to the back of the head

Daryon Walker died from a single gun shot wound, execution style to the back of the head. Police have charged Jaquelah Shonsa Banks and Juan Raphael Bethea with his murder. Bethea is from Wilmington and Banks was visiting from New Jersey. Wilmington Chief of Police Ralph Evangelous said, "For us to be able to help them down the road, and help them through this, and eventually culminate in the prosecution of this, and confinement of these individuals, it's satisfying."Wilmington police also put a cold case to rest, which happened at Nesbitt Court back in October of 2007.Dywuane Reshaune Simpson was found lying dead on the ground, after being shot several times. Erving Converse Muse is now charged with his murder...Simpson’s uncle Myron White said, "It's not over with yet, but I'm glad we got some kind of closure."
A warrant is out for the arrest of a second suspect in the murder of Simpson. Detectives expect an arrest to be made in the next couple days. Police say the two murders are unrelated, but a common motive between the two may be attempted robbery.

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Arrested five people Tuesday night after hearing a gun go off

Schenectady Police arrested five people Tuesday night after hearing a gun go off in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood.Out of the group police say three men were found with weapons. They include James Hill, 19, Markese Jones, 18, and a third male whose name cannot be released because of his age. Hill and Jones are currently in Schenectady County Jail.Schenectady Police arrested five people Tuesday night after hearing a gun go off in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood.The arrests come as Schenectady Police have increased patrolling in neighborhoods where crimes have been committed in an effort to get weapons off the streets. So far, five loaded hand guns have been recovered.

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Dwight Dixon who says he was shot by Indianapolis Colts receiver Marvin Harrison was convicted of a misdemeanor Wednesday for lying to Police

Dwight Dixon who says he was shot by Indianapolis Colts receiver Marvin Harrison was convicted of a misdemeanor Wednesday for lying to Philadelphia police about the shooting. A municipal court judge acquitted Dwight Dixon of two related misdemeanors after tossing out two of three statements he gave police, who had evicted Dixon’s lawyer from his hospital room after the shooting. Dixon, 32, initially told police his name was Malik Turner and that he was shot by two strangers who robbed him in West Philadelphia, several officers testified. Dixon had been shot in the hand and apparently struck in the head with a gun in the April 28 incident. Police took him from the hospital to a police station, where they interviewed him twice more. Dixon eventually told a homicide detective his real name and said he was shot at the North Philadelphia location, Detective Omar Jenkins testified. Police soon found his pickup truck riddled with shell casings and bullet holes. Dixon’s lawyers said he lied to police because he feared Harrison. They noted that a bystander struck by a bullet at the scene was put in protective custody for two weeks. “He was scared, that’s why he contacted Mr. (Joseph) Santaguida,” defense lawyer Robert Gamburg argued, referring to the attorney Dixon called to the hospital. “He is still scared for his life.” Santaguida told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the first thing Dixon said to him at the hospital was that the All-Pro receiver was the shooter. “I walk into his room and Dwight whispers to me, ‘Marvin Harrison shot me,’” Santaguida told the AP. “He didn’t know what to do. He was worried about saying anything because of retribution if word got out and people thought he was a rat.” Harrison’s lawyer, Jerome Brown, declined comment Wednesday on the allegation. The assault occurred nine months ago near Harrison’s car wash in North Philadelphia. On Jan. 6, Philadelphia District Attorney Lynne Abraham said investigators had determined that five of six bullet casings found at the scene came from a Belgian-made handgun owned by Harrison, but said there were too many conflicting accounts of who fired it.
Dixon, a huge man with a shaved head and Mr. T-style beard, has a civil suit pending against Harrison over his injuries. Dixon complained after Wednesday’s verdict that Harrison has gotten favorable treatment from authorities. “He shoots me and is free to go on living in his luxury suburban house and I get charged,” Dixon said. Santaguida did not repeat the hospital conversation when he took the witness stand Wednesday. But he said he emphatically told police that Dixon did not want to talk. Dixon was also worried about his parole status, Santaguida testified. Dixon served a 5- to 10-year prison term for a parole violation stemming from a 1994 drug case. He remains on parole, and was briefly handcuffed after Wednesday’s conviction for allegedly violating parole again. He was released after Gamburg said Dixon plans to appeal the misdemeanor case. Assistant District Attorney Thomas Lipscomb said he was satisfied with the verdict. Harrison was questioned by police soon after the shooting. He said he was at his car wash at the time of the shooting; that he knew Dixon; and that the two had been in a fist fight two weeks earlier after Dixon tried to bring a gun into a bar Harrison owns, Abraham has said. Harrison said his gun had been at his suburban home the day of the shooting and that it had not been fired since he bought it, Abraham said. Police instead found the weapon at Harrison’s car wash a day after the shooting. In announcing three weeks ago that they did not have enough evidence to charge anyone with the shooting, prosecutors said they will monitor depositions in Dixon’s civil case and the criminal case remains open.

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Jumez Lee was fatally shot in the head early Sunday morning during a private party

Arrested were James Hill, 19 and 18-year-old Markese Jones. The pair were charged with criminal possession of a weapon and Jones was additionally charged with unlawfully wearing a body vest police say he had on when he was stopped. As of late Wednesday night, both were still being held at the Schenectady County Jail. The third male, whose name is not being released due to his name, faces juvenile offender charges.

City police spokesman Sgt. Eric Clifford confirmed Wednesday that investigators found a gun at the scene of the the crime - the former Tip Toe Inn on Altamont Avenue in Mont Pleasant - where Jumez Lee was fatally shot in the head early Sunday morning during a private party. Police are doing ballistics testing on the weapon, Clifford said. Police said Lee, 24, whose death marked Schenectady's first homicide of 2009, used the City Mission on Hamilton Street as his address. A 26-year-old woman also was shot by the unidentified gunman who walked into the party and opened fire. She was being treated at Albany Medical Center Hospital and her name is being withheld by police.Lt. Micheal Brown, a Rotterdam Police Department spokesman, said Wednesday night that a man had reported two guns, a .45 caliber and Glock stolen from his vehicle. He did not know if the man was a Rotterdam resident and could not confirm media reports that he is a state corrections officer.Meantime, police are beefing up patrols of neighborhoods plagued by gun crime.For fear of undermining their efforts, the department is releasing few details of their plan, except that it involves teaming up with state troopers. In the past few days, however, they have made several arrests and recovered five loaded handguns.Just Tuesday night, three men were arrested on gun possession charges after a Schenectady cop heard one of them fire the weapon in the Mont Pleasant neighborhood.

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24-year-old west Auckland man and a 20-year-old Manurewa woman are jointly charged with the aggravated robbery of the Sunny Brae Dairy

24-year-old west Auckland man and a 20-year-old Manurewa woman are jointly charged with the aggravated robbery of the Sunny Brae Dairy on January 16 and the Cedar Superette three days later, and a dairy on Eugenia Rise on January 23.Police say the offender in the first two holdups escaped on a green BMX bike.A 19-year-old Manurewa man is also jointly charged with aggravated robbery for the Sunny Brae and Eugenia Rise holdups.The trio face two charges of unlawful possession of a pistol, one of unlawful possession of a firearm and one charge of stealing a motorvehicle. All three are due to appear in the Manukau District Court tomorrow.Detective senior sergeant Gary Lendrum of the Manurewa CIB says the arrests followed the execution of a search warrant at a Manurewa address.Police later found a loaded sawn-off double barrel shot gun, an unloaded sawn-off single barrel shot gun and an unloaded riffle. Mr Lendrum says the arrests are a relief given the armed robberies were "definitely at the top end of the offending scale"."Hopefully it puts the minds of a few dairy owners at rest

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Richard Keogh, has been shot dead in the Torrequebrada area of Benalmadena

A 35-year-old Irishman, named Richard Keogh, has been shot dead in the Torrequebrada area of Benalmadena.Investigating officers believe it could have been a settling of scores. A relative who was with the victim on the same night has been arrested on separate chargesThe events happened last Saturday night at around 11pm in front of a supermarket in Torrequebrada. Richard Keogh - from Cabra in Dublin - had been drinking coffee with some friends (including a South American man suspected to be a drug dealer) and a relative at an Irish bar. When he left to return home, a car believed to have three people inside, pulled up and at least one occupant opened fire. Keogh was shot a couple of times and attempted to escape before he fell injured and the killer fired more rounds into his body from close range, one of which struck him in the face.Shocked onlookers alerted the emergency services, although at first they thought the loud noises had been caused by fireworks. Officers from the Local and National Police hurried to the scene and found the 30-year-old Irishman lying in a pool of blood on the floor. The paramedics, who arrived just moments later, could not save his life. The police found eight bullet casings at the crime scene and interviewed witnesses. One of them said he saw a white Honda Civic leaving the crime scene. Officers later found the vehicle abandoned near a school in Torrequebrada; the keys were still in the ignition and the radio was on. Smoke was coming from one of the seats, indicating that the culprits had attempted to set the car on fire to suppress evidence. Officers found some gloves and a spent magazine from a handgun in the car.

The police say that the motive for the shooting looks like a settling of scores. But it is still unclear if Keogh was shot as part of a dispute with drug dealers based on the Costa del Sol, or if he was targeted by an Irish drugs gang with whom he was in dispute before he left Ireland with his wife and children just over a year ago. In November, 2007, Keogh was putting his rubbish out for collection when a gunman fired at least five shots at him as his wife and two-year-old son looked on. He was wounded in the shoulder and arm but managed to run back into the safety of his home. Keogh is said to have been a significant player in the drugs trade in Benalmadena. The relative who was with him the night of the shooting has been arrested as he is wanted in Ireland.

Government subdelegate to Malaga Hilario Lopez said that this kind of reprisal happens among criminals but citizens should not be worried because they are isolated incidents.

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Ernest “Bama” Edwards ranking member of the Bloods street gang allegedly pulled a gun and threatened to shoot another man.

Ernest “Bama” Edwards has an extensive history of gun use violence and gun possession, police said.Police in the Village of Monticello are looking for a ranking member of the Bloods street gang following an incident Tuesday evening in which he allegedly pulled a gun and threatened to shoot another man.At about 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday in the parking lot of the Mobil mart at 519 Broadway, several men were involved in a disturbance when witnesses said Edwards pulled the gun and made the threat. Several beer bottles were also thrown during the disturbance with one striking a car, breaking the windshield and sunroof and showering two people inside with broken glass.Police have obtained an arrest warrant for Edwards, who is described as being black, six feet, one inch tall, weighing 225 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes.

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man, believed to be in his 20s was shot in the shoulder when police stopped two cars during a pre-planned operation.

man, believed to be in his 20s, is in a serious condition in hospital after the incident in north London just after midnight last night. A Met Police spokesman said he was shot in the shoulder when police stopped two cars during a pre-planned operation. Officers from the Met’s specialist firearms unit CO19 and Operation Trident – which tackles "black on black" gun crime – stopped the cars on Green Lanes in Haringey. The spokesman said: “This was an intelligence-led operation during which five people were arrested at the scene on suspicion of conspiracy to rob.
“This investigation is still ongoing, led by Trident. The five people have been taken to various London police stations." The Professional Standards Department and the Independent Police Complaints Commission were informed and have attended the scene. A decision on whether the watchdogs will investigate what happened will be made later.

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Daquan Blackwood, 19, and Lamont McDonald, Jr., 18, both of Newburgh, were each charged with first-degree robbery and criminal possession of a weapon

Daquan Blackwood, 19, and Lamont McDonald, Jr., 18, both of Newburgh, were each charged with first-degree robbery and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree.Two men have been charged with armed robbery after a cabbie they had just robbed at gunpoint followed their footprints in the snow and told police where to find them.The victim had picked up the men after 2 a.m. on Wednesday and took them to Courtney Avenue at which time one pulled a gun and held it to his head while the other man took his wallet and ripped the keys out of the car. Both men fled on foot toward Liberty Street.The tax driver followed the footprints in the snow to 75 Liberty Street where they ended at the residence.When two police officers got there, they waited for the men to exist through the back and arrested them.

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Cambridge pool supply company captured a man wanted for allegedly chasing and gunning down a fellow employee

Police have captured a man wanted for allegedly chasing and gunning down a fellow employee at a Cambridge pool supply company. Authorities say 65-year-old Clyde Howard was caught Wednesday by Boston police.

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University of Arizona Police Department officer saw a gun in her glove box

woman was placed in handcuffs after police saw a gun in her glove box Jan. 20 at 5:55 a.m.A University of Arizona Police Department officer observed a car driving without its headlights near the ROTC building and did a routine traffic stop. A Tucson Police Department officer was also in the area and came to assist. The UAPD officer was at the driver's side window and the TPD officer on the passenger side when they asked the woman for her license, registration, and proof of insurance. When she opened the glove box, the TPD officer saw a 9 mm and shouted, "Gun, gun."
The woman was told to remove her hand from the glove box and put both of her hands on the steering wheel. She did as the officers told her. She was then asked to step out of the vehicle and told she was going to be handcuffed for the officers' safety and she was not under arrest. The woman was placed in the back of the patrol vehicle.
Police noticed that the woman's sweater said "Marine" on it. She told the officers that she was in the Marines and she was attending a prep class at the university. She said that she bought the gun several months ago and was told that she could carry the gun, loaded, in her glove box. She did not know that it was illegal to carry a loaded weapon in a glove box. Police also informed her that it was illegal to have any type of weapon on campus.There were several Marines on the sidewalk. The woman's immediate supervisor identified himself to police.Police decided not to arrest the woman for any criminal charges because they were assured the Marines would handle the situation. The gun was unloaded and the clip and bullets removed. Police asked if there was a gun safe available in the ROTC building to store the weapon, clip and ammunition. They were told there was. The woman was informed about the laws regarding weapons on campus and concealed weapons.

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Rodolfo Duarte, was arrested after allegedly attempting to carry a loaded weapon onto an aircraft at O’Hare International Airport

Rodolfo Duarte, was arrested after allegedly attempting to carry a loaded weapon onto an aircraft at O’Hare International Airport, the second such arrest in weeks.
Rodolfo Duarte, 27, was arrested Thursday at O’Hare International Airport and charged with boarding an aircraft with a weapon, according to police News Affairs Officer David Banks. Jefferson District police indicated a loaded “homemade” firearm, which has no make or model but has the ability to fire, was found inside his bag. One bullet was in the chamber and another was outside the chamber of the gun when he was arrested Thursday afternoon, district police said.On Dec. 6, Goce Stojanovski, 47, of Crown Point, Ind., was charged with trying to board an aircraft at O’Hare with a weapon, according to police.A loaded .25-caliber semi-automatic handgun was found wrapped in a napkin in a pocket of his carry-on briefcase, with five live rounds, including one in the chamber, according to court records.

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Experts who viewed the video clips speculated that Mehserle fired his gun because the officer had mistaken his handgun for a stun gun.

A BART police officer, idenitified as 27-year-old Johannes Mehserle, shot Grant on the Fruitvale station platform after responding to reports of men fighting on a train. Four officers had pulled Grant and a few other men out of the train. The victim was lying face down on the platform when he was shot. The shooting and events leading up to it were captured on amateur videos that have been broadcast on CBS 5 and other television outlets. Mehserle resigned from the transit agency shortly before he was supposed to be interviewed by investigators Wednesday. Mehserle's attorney did not respond to calls for comment. Grant's family in Hayward has filed a $25 million wrongful death claim against BART, and they want prosecutors to file criminal charges against Mehserle.
"There were racial slurs directed at the young men," family attorney John Burris said Thursday. "But I have no evidence that this particular officer (Mehserle) directed racial slurs towards Oscar Grant." Police have not classified the confrontation as a hate crime.
Some experts who viewed the video clips speculated that Mehserle fired his gun because he believed Grant had a deadly weapon, while others think the officer had mistakenly his handgun for a stun gun.

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105 people were arrested in violent Oakland protests over the BART police shooting of an unarmed man

Heavy police presence greeted Bay Area Rapid Transit commuters Thursday after at least 105 people were arrested in violent Oakland protests over the BART police shooting of an unarmed man.The unruly protesters, responding to the Jan. 1 fatal shooting of 22-year-old Oscar Grant III, smashed store windows, burned cars, and vandalized an Oakland police cruiser as they made their way throughout the downtown area.Grant's mother, Wanda Johnson, beseeched residents to avoid further violence and not tarnish the image of her son."You're hurting people who have nothing to do with the situation. You're vandalizing their property, hurting their cars and breaking their windows. Please just stop it, please," Johnson said at a Thursday afternoon news conference. About 15 people were taken into custody around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, but the bulk of the 100-plus arrests were made after police cornered protesters outside the Paramount Theatre around 11 p.m., said Oakland Police spokesman Jeff Thomason.Charges against them include inciting a riot, assault on a police officer, vandalism, rioting and unlawful assembly, Thomason said. Two of the arrests involved illegal handgun possession and another was for drug violations.
He indicated at least one person, a TV cameraman, was injured in the violence. No police officers were hurt, he said. Police officers patrolled outside BART headquarters in Oakland Thursday to ensure calm during the agency's morning meeting, where many African-American community leaders expressed outrage over the killing of Grant, who was black.Alameda County Supervisor Keith Carson told BART directors that Grant's death "appeared to be an execution,'' and he called for BART to hold a public meeting that allows the community to understand the policies and procedures in which police officers shoot people.The Rev. Amost Brown was even more blunt: "It was murder. Not trying to explain away, not trying to explain whethere he had his taser or he had his gun. The evidence was there. And we should all say, that was murder. And this gentleman needs to be brought to justice." Oakland City Councilwoman Desley Brooks said BART appeared to be trying to cover up the incident and alleged, "There was a failure to communicate and acknowledge the taking of a life.''Brooks also contended that most protests in the wake of Grant's death were peaceful and that the violence was caused by "a renegade group'' that wanted to "wreak havoc.''What had started as a peaceful demonstration involving about 500 people at the Fruitvale BART station over Grant's shooting death escalated Wednesday night. Oakland police in riot gear threw tear gas and started making arrests as they tried to break up the demonstration; extra officers were called in for duty."The crowd started to become more agitated, more hostile, started throwing stuff at the police," Thomason said. "We gave a dispersal order four to five times over a 20-minute period, then we had our officers go in and start making arrests."

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Arrested Ralph Fuller, 50, at about 7 p.m. Monday in the slaying of Michael McDaniel.

Arrested Ralph Fuller, 50, at about 7 p.m. Monday in the slaying of Michael McDaniel.
Fuller was taken to the Clark County Detention Center and charged with one count of murder with a deadly weapon, police said.When officers arrived near Martin Luther King Boulevard and Owens Avenue at about 8:48 a.m. on Dec. 16, they found McDaniel in the driver's seat of his vehicle with multiple gunshot wounds. McDaniel was taken to University Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, police said.Witnesses at the scene told police the victim was in his vehicle waiting to go westbound on Owens when another man who was also stuck in traffic left a white Nissan vehicle, walked up to the victim's vehicle and fired multiple shots into the driver's seat, police said.Witnesses said the shooter then calmly walked back to his vehicle, made a U-turn eastbound on Owens and left the scene, police said.

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Reward for information in a fatal shooting at a Far North Dallas smoke shop last week has been doubled to $10,000

reward for information in a fatal shooting at a Far North Dallas smoke shop last week has been doubled to $10,000, police said today. 1 dead, 3 injured in Gas Pipe smoke shop shooting in Dallas Investigators have not identified a motive in the killing of 18-year-old Rebeca Rae Kemp. Three other people were injured when a gunman standing with two other men opened fire from the front doorway of the Gas Pipe in the 18600 block of Marsh Lane. At the request of Dallas police, Schepps Dairy added $5,000 to an existing reward posted by Crime Stoppers in the Dec. 30 shooting. The money is being offered for information leading to an arrest and grand jury indictment in the case.

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Enrique Zavala Zamudio, 19, and Joel Chavez Zavala, 21, died at the scene from their gunshot wounds.

Two people were killed and four were injured after two gunmen opened fire on a group of people barbecuing in Greenfield on Sunday, police said.The shooting took place at about 7:40 p.m. at 438 Calaveras St.Witnesses said they saw two Hispanic men in their late teens or early 20s walking in the neighborhood and looking “suspicious” just minutes before gunfire rang out, police said.Enrique Zavala Zamudio, 19, and Joel Chavez Zavala, 21, died at the scene from their gunshot wounds.The other four victims were brought to local hospitals.As of 5:30 a.m. Monday, two of the victims had been released from area hospitals, while the other victims were in stable condition.The two alleged gunman fled the scene on foot and are currently on the loose, officials said.Police said the two men may have gotten into a brown GMC Yukon or a Chevrolet Blazer, but no license plate was seen.

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Randy Davis is charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of Michele Davis

Randy Davis is charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of Michele Davis last September. She was found dead after her car went out of control near downtown. Police believed she died in the accident, but an autopsy showed she had been shot.
Witnesses reported seeing a red pickup truck in the area at the time Michele Davis' car crashed.Randy Davis was arrested a week later. He remains in the Polk County jail on $500,000 bond.

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Oscar Juliuss Grant III,steady stream of mourners passed by the wreath-flanked casket

steady stream of mourners passed by the wreath-flanked casket of Oscar Juliuss Grant III, and by the time his funeral service began Wednesday morning, an overcapacity crowd of about 1,000 people had packed into South Hayward's Palma Ceia Baptist Church.As family members took their seats — more than 100 of Grant's relatives attended — one woman became overcome with grief and allowed herself to be escorted outside.The church's Rev. Ronald Coleman changed the tone with music, singing "I don't know what you came to do, but I came to pray today" to a crowd that increasingly clapped along.Coleman urged the crowd to "show the world how we believers handle stuff like this, and lift up this family."So set the mood for most of the services, which squarely focused on the life of 22-year-old Grant, and not on his violent shooting death on the Fruitvale BART platform, early Jan. 1.Grant had long been a member of the church on Ruus Road, and pastors spoke warmly about the man whom they'd known since he was a young boy."I met Oscar when he was young — 6, 7, 8 years old," Deacon Eugene Carter said during the service. Oscar always knew so much for a young person. It seemed like he knew as much as some adults. ."‚."‚. He would ask adult questions."Grant had shown leadership skills as part of the church's Royal Ambassadors program, Carter said, which made the deacon think that one day the boy would become a pastor himself. From a young age, Grant enjoyed fishing, baseball, chess and dominoes, Carter said."Whatever you knew how to do, Oscar already knew how to do it," he said.

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Nine-millimetre Mack 11 machine pistol found with a cache of weapons during a drug search

A nine-millimetre Mack 11 machine pistol found with a cache of weapons during a drug search was an “unusual” find, said Constable Amy Phillipo of the London Police Service. London city police went looking for drugs today and found a stockpile of weapons, including a prohibited semi-automatic pistol that can easily be converted into an automatic gun. But knives and guns that can be legally purchased in Canada are frequently found during drug investigations, she said, adding some are registered and some are not. The semi-automatic Mack 11, which holds 13 rounds of ammunition, is a prohibited weapon in Canada, said a member of the drug and gun squad, adding it can be converted into an automatic weapon with simple modifications. “It has no military use,” he said. “It is not used by the Canadian forces.” Phillipo said the gun was seized along with drugs, seven knives, a homemade tazer and pepper spray after police executed a search warrant at a Dundas Street residence about 9:30 a.m. today. A suspect in a drug investigation was spotted and arrested at Dundas and Burwell streets before police searched the address listed on the warrant, said Phillipo. After the search, police charged Anthony Gratkowski, 23, of London with 11 weapons and firearms offences, possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking, possession of marihuana for the purpose of trafficking and possession of the proceeds of crime. During the search, police also seized ammunition, a digital scale, 110 grams of marihuana bud, 2.5 kilograms of marihuana shake and a small quantity of cocaine as well as the weapons. Police displayed the seizure for the media this afternoon and the items included a bayonet with a grip handle and wrist strap, a machete with a long blade, a knife with a split blade and a dagger that tapers to a needle point.

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