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Conviction of Toledo man for stockpiling weapons began with the tracking of camisoles | cleveland.com
First off the feds were originally investigating the suspect over selling counterfeit sports jerseys, no one knew about this guys gun stockpile.
My question about this story is how could a guy who has a murder conviction on his record was able to acquire 18 weapons and a good supply of ammo without being detected?
Conviction of Toledo man for stockpiling weapons began with the tracking of camisoles | cleveland.com
CLEVELAND, Ohio — The paperwork said the mailed package contained $40 worth of women's camisoles. Someone in China sent it to a Toledo address.
Inside, there were no camisoles -- just low-quality, fake NFL jerseys with misspellings of players' names and poor quality stitching, records show. Federal agents had tracked the package and others like it to Richard Schmidt, a Toledo man who ran a sports memorabilia shop in Bowling Green.
But what began with investigators chasing box loads of counterfeit jerseys and baseball caps ended in one of the most perplexing seizures of weapons in Ohio: Authorities in December nabbed 18 guns that included assault rifles, more than 40,000 rounds of ammunition and body armor from Schmidt, a felon who killed a man and wounded two other people in 1989.
Investigators also found possible links to white supremacist groups. He had a VHS tape of a national meeting of the National Socialist Movement and stickers from the National Alliance, according to an inventory of seized items filed in U.S. District Court in Toledo. Agents also obtained notes with the names of Jewish and NAACP leaders in Detroit.
First off the feds were originally investigating the suspect over selling counterfeit sports jerseys, no one knew about this guys gun stockpile.
My question about this story is how could a guy who has a murder conviction on his record was able to acquire 18 weapons and a good supply of ammo without being detected?