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B.C. Man Operated 'Chop Shop' For Guns To Be Used In Crime: Crown Lawyer

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 11 Sep, 2015 12:33 PM
    KAMLOOPS, B.C. — A man charged with eight weapons-related offences was involved in operating a "chop shop" for modifying firearms, a Crown lawyer says.
     
    Frank Caputo told B.C. Supreme Court that police pulled Charles Patrick over in December 2013 behind the wheel of a suspicious vehicle.
     
    RCMP allege they found him with a loaded, sawed-off shotgun inside his jacket.
     
    Mounties raided his home the same evening, and the Crown alleges a number of other modified weapons were seized.
     
    “(It was) a chop shop for guns," Caputo said in his opening statement. "It was a place where guns were altered in furtherance of criminal activity."
     
    Caputo said the trial scheduled for seven days will also hear that Mounties found another sawed-off shotgun, a shortened rifle, tools to modify guns and “ammo all over the place.”
     
    Patrick was formerly married to Maxine Patrick, office manager of the Kamloops Blazers hockey team for almost a decade, beginning in 1994.
     
    She defrauded the organization of almost $1 million over that period.

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