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Anyone one know anything about this case? What receivers? Were these OLL and parts kits??
SANTA ROSA
Officers face prison over illegal weapons
Chronicle staff report
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
A former Santa Rosa firefighter and a Rohnert Park public safety officer have pleaded no contest to charges that they conspired to destroy firearms they had allegedly imported illegally, Sonoma County prosecutors said Tuesday.
Former firefighter Daniel Lusk, 36, and public safety Officer Frank Higdon, 38, each face a maximum term of three years in state prison when they are sentenced May 8 by Judge Lawrence Antolini of Sonoma County Superior Court, said District Attorney Stephan Passalacqua.
Lusk and Higdon pleaded no contest to one felony count each of conspiring to destroy evidence, the district attorney said.
The charges against the two arose out of an investigation by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives into illegally imported automatic firearm bodies, Passalacqua said. Agents traced two of the gun parts, called receivers, to Lusk, who told investigators that the parts might still be at his Rohnert Park home, authorities said.
When agents finished questioning him, Lusk called his wife, Cynthia, and Higdon, and told them to destroy the receivers and other assault weapons, authorities said. Higdon was doing so when police arrived at Lusk's home, Passalacqua said.
As part of a plea agreement, prosecutors agreed to drop charges against Higdon and Daniel Lusk of illegal possession and destruction of weapons, and to drop all charges against Cynthia Lusk.
This article appeared on page B - 3 of the San Francisco Chronicle
SANTA ROSA
Officers face prison over illegal weapons
Chronicle staff report
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
A former Santa Rosa firefighter and a Rohnert Park public safety officer have pleaded no contest to charges that they conspired to destroy firearms they had allegedly imported illegally, Sonoma County prosecutors said Tuesday.
Former firefighter Daniel Lusk, 36, and public safety Officer Frank Higdon, 38, each face a maximum term of three years in state prison when they are sentenced May 8 by Judge Lawrence Antolini of Sonoma County Superior Court, said District Attorney Stephan Passalacqua.
Lusk and Higdon pleaded no contest to one felony count each of conspiring to destroy evidence, the district attorney said.
The charges against the two arose out of an investigation by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives into illegally imported automatic firearm bodies, Passalacqua said. Agents traced two of the gun parts, called receivers, to Lusk, who told investigators that the parts might still be at his Rohnert Park home, authorities said.
When agents finished questioning him, Lusk called his wife, Cynthia, and Higdon, and told them to destroy the receivers and other assault weapons, authorities said. Higdon was doing so when police arrived at Lusk's home, Passalacqua said.
As part of a plea agreement, prosecutors agreed to drop charges against Higdon and Daniel Lusk of illegal possession and destruction of weapons, and to drop all charges against Cynthia Lusk.
This article appeared on page B - 3 of the San Francisco Chronicle
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