https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/investigations/2019/06/13/atf-looking-guns-and-glock-parts-stolen-and-sold-guard/1425467001/
[Trusted insider strikes again. - WK]
By John Diedrich
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
June 13, 2019
ATF agents across the country have been working to track down thousands of
guns and firearms parts that had been seized by law enforcement and were
supposed to be destroyed but were stolen first, according to sources
familiar with the effort.
The agents are searching for some of their own retired service weapons as
well as guns from other federal law enforcement agencies, including the
FBI and DEA.
All of the weapons had been sent to the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms and Explosives' National Firearms and Ammunition Destruction
Branch in Martinsburg, West Virginia, to be shredded, according to court
documents and congressional letters.
A longtime guard at the ATF facility has admitted to carting off thousands
of firearms, gun parts and ammunition and selling them over several years.
Christopher Yates, 52, a guard who worked as a contract employee for ATF
for 16 years, was charged in federal court in West Virginia. He pleaded
guilty in April to possession of a stolen gun and stealing government
property.
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