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Weapons Stolen From Manassas Gun Shop
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jlcharlton
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For those of you in Nortern Virginia, here's a photo of the man (Michael Wayne Lewis II) being sought in the Virginia gun store thefts. WUSA9.com website article includes a photo. This dangerous man is from Front Royal, VA and frequents the Manassas, VA. area.There is achance that a membermayrecognize and help bring him to justice as he apparently visits gun stores before returning to burglerizethem.
http://www.wusa9.com/rss/vodcasting_article.aspx?ref=Vodcast&storyid=62106
For those of you in Nortern Virginia, here's a photo of the man (Michael Wayne Lewis II) being sought in the Virginia gun store thefts. WUSA9.com website article includes a photo. This dangerous man is from Front Royal, VA and frequents the Manassas, VA. area.There is achance that a membermayrecognize and help bring him to justice as he apparently visits gun stores before returning to burglerizethem.
http://www.wusa9.com/rss/vodcasting_article.aspx?ref=Vodcast&storyid=62106
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Three federal firearms suspects nabbed with help from Hawkins deputies
Published 09/05/2007 By JEFF BOBO
Hawkins County deputies assisted federal agents Friday evening in arresting three suspects accused in a spree of gun store burglaries in Northern Virginia.
Public information agent Michael Campbell with the federal bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) said Tuesday that agents with the Northern Virginia office followed the suspects from the Washington, D.C., area to Rolling Hill Trailer Park north of Surgoinsville.
The ATF then contacted the Hawkins County Sheriff’s Office for assistance, and when one of the suspects, Michael Wayne Lewis, 29, of Centre Hill, Va., left the residence, officers followed.
Sheriff Roger Christian said Lewis apparently spotted the tail and pulled off the road in Rogersville into the Comfort Inn motel parking lot where he was arrested. Lewis was allegedly sitting on a loaded handgun at the time of his arrest.
The HCSO Tactical Team was then assembled to arrest the other two suspects at the mobile home. Deputies had information that they were possibly armed and dangerous and also had a 1-month-old infant with them.
The other two suspects, Troy Anthony Burke, 32, of Manassas, Va., and Rebecca Ann Smith, 31, 8717 Linton Hall Road, Bristol, Va., were apprehended without resistance.
As far as local charges all three are being held in the Hawkins County Jail on a fugitive from justice warrant. Christian added, however, that other charges may be pending stemming from Lewis’s alleged possession of the handgun and a vehicle stolen out of Alabama which was allegedly linked to all three and was recovered in a Church Hill grocery store parking lot.
Campbell told the Times-News Tuesday, however, that all three have at least one federal charge each, and an investigation is ongoing that may produce additional charges.
The three are allegedly linked to at least three gun store burglaries that occurred within the past month including one in Manassas, Va., in which 20 handguns were stolen; one in Rappahannock County, Va., in which 40 handguns were stolen; and one in Winchester, Va., in which eight handguns were stolen.
Lewis is currently charged federally with possession of a handgun by a convicted felon. Burke and Smith are each charged with one federal count of possession of stolen property.
Campbell said about half of the stolen guns have been recovered in and around Washington D.C., where they were allegedly being sold on the street.
“Our main subject, Mr. Lewis, was driving in Virginia to meet (a customer) at a spot where we were going to try to arrest him,” Campbell said. “But he went through a speed trap and the Virginia State Police ended up chasing him. He was able to get away.
“He dumped his motorcycle, but left behind five guns and his identification.”
There’s no information on why the suspects came into Hawkins County except that they had friends at the Surgoinsville mobile home park.
Campbell said the ATF is looking into the possibility that some of the stolen guns are in Hawkins County or the surrounding area.
Anyone with information about the whereabouts of the stolen guns is asked to call 1-800-ATF-GUNS (1-800-283-4867).
Three federal firearms suspects nabbed with help from Hawkins deputies
Published 09/05/2007 By JEFF BOBO
Hawkins County deputies assisted federal agents Friday evening in arresting three suspects accused in a spree of gun store burglaries in Northern Virginia.
Public information agent Michael Campbell with the federal bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) said Tuesday that agents with the Northern Virginia office followed the suspects from the Washington, D.C., area to Rolling Hill Trailer Park north of Surgoinsville.
The ATF then contacted the Hawkins County Sheriff’s Office for assistance, and when one of the suspects, Michael Wayne Lewis, 29, of Centre Hill, Va., left the residence, officers followed.
Sheriff Roger Christian said Lewis apparently spotted the tail and pulled off the road in Rogersville into the Comfort Inn motel parking lot where he was arrested. Lewis was allegedly sitting on a loaded handgun at the time of his arrest.
The HCSO Tactical Team was then assembled to arrest the other two suspects at the mobile home. Deputies had information that they were possibly armed and dangerous and also had a 1-month-old infant with them.
The other two suspects, Troy Anthony Burke, 32, of Manassas, Va., and Rebecca Ann Smith, 31, 8717 Linton Hall Road, Bristol, Va., were apprehended without resistance.
As far as local charges all three are being held in the Hawkins County Jail on a fugitive from justice warrant. Christian added, however, that other charges may be pending stemming from Lewis’s alleged possession of the handgun and a vehicle stolen out of Alabama which was allegedly linked to all three and was recovered in a Church Hill grocery store parking lot.
Campbell told the Times-News Tuesday, however, that all three have at least one federal charge each, and an investigation is ongoing that may produce additional charges.
The three are allegedly linked to at least three gun store burglaries that occurred within the past month including one in Manassas, Va., in which 20 handguns were stolen; one in Rappahannock County, Va., in which 40 handguns were stolen; and one in Winchester, Va., in which eight handguns were stolen.
Lewis is currently charged federally with possession of a handgun by a convicted felon. Burke and Smith are each charged with one federal count of possession of stolen property.
Campbell said about half of the stolen guns have been recovered in and around Washington D.C., where they were allegedly being sold on the street.
“Our main subject, Mr. Lewis, was driving in Virginia to meet (a customer) at a spot where we were going to try to arrest him,” Campbell said. “But he went through a speed trap and the Virginia State Police ended up chasing him. He was able to get away.
“He dumped his motorcycle, but left behind five guns and his identification.”
There’s no information on why the suspects came into Hawkins County except that they had friends at the Surgoinsville mobile home park.
Campbell said the ATF is looking into the possibility that some of the stolen guns are in Hawkins County or the surrounding area.
Anyone with information about the whereabouts of the stolen guns is asked to call 1-800-ATF-GUNS (1-800-283-4867).