news: 3rd Suspect Guilty in Bay Area's Biggest Gun Heist...

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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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Thats a lot of guns

I think the WORST place in the USA to be cought stealing a gun is in SF. No SF jury would have had a drop of sympathy for any of them.

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Thats a lot of guns

I think the WORST place in the USA to be cought stealing a gun is in SF. No SF jury would have had a drop of sympathy for any of them.

Oh c'mon now, they were stealing the guns to destroy them on the behalf of starving children everywhere! These "thieves" were saints, as proven by only 24 of the guns being recovered. The rest have all been duly disposed of, and these upstanding individuals are only upset that those 24 guns were acquired by hooligans who held them up at gunpoint while they were loading these horrible weapons into the back of their Civic.

On the other hand, whatever horrible person had 127 guns to begin with - now that guy really ought to be convicted of something. He's all set up to mow down a schoolyard or something.

For those who might not get it - SARCASM! And a field exercise in demonstrating how liberal spin can be applied to almost ANYTHING.