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01-27-2006, 03:14 PM
from http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/13730152.htm
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Third Suspect Guilty in Bay Area's Biggest Gun Heist
By Lisa Fernandez
Mercury News
A Daly City man who helped stage the Bay Area's biggest gun heist three years ago has been convicted by a federal jury in San Francisco, the United States Attorney announced Friday.
After deliberating six hours following a two-week trial, a jury Thursday found Wayne Lawrence Standart, 39, guilty of stealing 127 rifles, shotguns, handguns and pistols in 2002 from a Millbrae storage locker called Annie's Attic. Only 24 of those guns have been recovered, according to Luke Macaulay of the U.S. Attorney's office.
Standart is scheduled to be sentenced May 12 before U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston. He faces a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison.
Standart is the final defendant in the Millbrae heist to be found guilty. Arthur Gates and Thomas Schoenstein already have pleaded guilty. The convictions finalize a two-year investigation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which discovered in 2004 that the guns had been stolen from the Millbrae storage unit.
The guns had been stored at Annie's Attic in 2001 by a company called Monterey Bay Investments, which stored them on behalf of Willilam Cargile. Cargile, a former partner at Crosspoint Venture Partners in Woodside, was on probation for a misdemeanor assault and was not allowed to have the guns.
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Third Suspect Guilty in Bay Area's Biggest Gun Heist
By Lisa Fernandez
Mercury News
A Daly City man who helped stage the Bay Area's biggest gun heist three years ago has been convicted by a federal jury in San Francisco, the United States Attorney announced Friday.
After deliberating six hours following a two-week trial, a jury Thursday found Wayne Lawrence Standart, 39, guilty of stealing 127 rifles, shotguns, handguns and pistols in 2002 from a Millbrae storage locker called Annie's Attic. Only 24 of those guns have been recovered, according to Luke Macaulay of the U.S. Attorney's office.
Standart is scheduled to be sentenced May 12 before U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston. He faces a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison.
Standart is the final defendant in the Millbrae heist to be found guilty. Arthur Gates and Thomas Schoenstein already have pleaded guilty. The convictions finalize a two-year investigation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which discovered in 2004 that the guns had been stolen from the Millbrae storage unit.
The guns had been stored at Annie's Attic in 2001 by a company called Monterey Bay Investments, which stored them on behalf of Willilam Cargile. Cargile, a former partner at Crosspoint Venture Partners in Woodside, was on probation for a misdemeanor assault and was not allowed to have the guns.
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