Posted on 03/06/2009 2:27:43 PM PST by DCBryan1
Doctor Arrested on Grenade Charges
Little Rock - A doctor who has been sanctioned by the state medical board was arrested after grenades were found in a field near his home, but authorities say the arrest is not tied to a recent car bombing that seriously wounded the board's chairman.
Dr. Randeep Mann, an internal medicine specialist from Russellville, was arrested by federal agents on a charge of possession of unregistered firearms. He is expected to remain in federal custody at least until a bond hearing Monday in federal court in Little Rock.
An ATF afidavit says agents interviewed Mann in February after the car bomb in West Memphis critically injured the head of the state medical board. Mann showed them his grenade launcher at the time. Say It On 7:
But Austin Banks, a special agent with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, says Mann's arrest this week was not tied to the investigation into the February 4th car bombing that wounded Dr. Trent Pierce. Pierce remains in critical condition at a Memphis hospital.
Banks said the arrest resulted from a complaint to the Pope County Sheriff's Office about grenades found in a field near Mann's residence.
The affidavit says a canister buried on the property contained 98 grenades, the kind used in grenade launchers. ATF searched the property and found 5 more canisters, similar to the one that was buried. The affidavit says agents found two grenade launchers in a safe in the basement and 110 fully automatic machine guns valued at more than $1 million located throughout Mann's house.
The affidavit says the ATF could not determine if 17 of the machine guns were legally registered to Mann.
Drake Mann, who represents the doctor but is no relation to him, said he spoke to the doctor but they are still studying the allegations. The lawyer said he doesn't think the government knows what its intentions are.
In 2006, the state board restricted Mann's prescription-writing privileges after several of his patients died from a lethal mix of drugs or overdose of prescription medicine. Mann maintained the issue was not the prescriptions but the patients' abuse of the drugs.
Mann and the board reached an agreement by which Mann was allowed to keep his medical license but was barred from prescribing narcotics.
Three years earlier, the board had suspended Mann from prescribing controlled substances for one year.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
Randeep Singh Mann of London, AR (near Russellville) was taken into federal custody Wednesday after explosives found buried in a field matched explosives found in his garage.
The federal agents found canisters containing:
almost 100 grenade of various types, the majority being:
40mm HE, M406 rounds and some M781 practice rounds.
The grenades were designed to be fired from an M79 or M203 grenade launcher, of which he had licenses for.
Federal agents also found one hundred and ten (110) fully automatic machine guns they valued at more than $1 million (I would estimate 5-10 million...If they were all Mac-10s,then that would be $400k worth by their crappy selves).
It is reported that the agents could not determine registration on seventeen (17) of the guns.
Mann does not have a Destructive Device license in order to possess the 40mm M406 destructive devices, but does have paperwork to own the grenade launchers.
The charges pending against him will be for the possession of unregistered firearms and explosives.
I wish a good lawyer would take this to the USSC and get 922(0) overturned, and affirm the right of citizens to keep and bear arms (yes even grenades).
Unfortunately, we will probably see 110 machineguns destroyed unless he can transfer them to ME (wink wink) before conviction. From what I understand, he had a COMPLETE WW2 collection to include an FG42 (value $100k+), Johnson M1941 LMG ($45k+), Sten Mk I suppressed (value $20k+), and a Colt Monitor (Value >$100k).
How are they connecting the grenades to him, as they were found buried in a field near his house?
As the BATF is notorious for its poor record keeping, and he legally had dozens of machine guns, why am I not surprised that they claim that they have no record of some of the machine guns that he has?
Lots of details are out there that we have not been told yet.
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(And by the way, every home should have at least one crew served weapon.)
Wow, this doesn’t sound like a setup or anything. Where in the Constitution does it say that citizens are not allowed to own a particular type of weapon? Or explosive devices? Dianne Feinstein must be wetting herself with delight (sorry for the horrid visual).
Randeep Singh Mann of London, ARAccording to Hillary, this guy should have been half-owner of a convenience story, and not a doctor.
IMHO this guy should be your typical neighbor.
How, exactly, are they linking grenades found in a field to him? The leaps of intuition among BATFE agents are astounding.
Now why would anyone need 110 machi... machi... machi...
Nope, can’t do it. Apparently I lack the Marxist Gun Grabber gene!
It’s another tragic story about a well-armed citizen getting the shaft by frightened feds.
Mouth watering covet, covet.
NOTE TO SELF: BURY YOUR M406 Grenades in an adjacent National Forest and ENCRYPT the GPS coordinates. NOT ON YOUR OWN PROPERTY!
Put me on the jury.
Perfect for your neighborhood "looter shooter".
Amen. I would acquit and ask why everyone didn’t have a nice, even, collection as he did?
I shot one of those while in country and I can say it is truely a duster!
The ATF did it to Randy Weaver.
They did it to many, many others, killing pregnant women and stomping pet cats along the way.
The ATF wants gun owners disarmed. They will do anything - ANYTHING - to accomplish that goal. Jack booted thugs, indeed.
Absolutely, what do you think I had kids for?
They weren't ON his property, but rather in a field NEAR his property.
“A doctor who has been sanctioned by the state medical board was arrested after grenades were found in a field near his home, but authorities say the arrest is not tied to a recent car bombing that seriously wounded the board’s chairman.”
I don’t believe it is unrelated for a minute. Remember, no one can be called a “suspect” anymore because they will sue for defamation. Now, authorities are even becoming skittish about using the phrase “person of interest.” This guy had his prescription-writing privileges revoked by the medical board. Dollars to donuts that this is VERY related to the doctor’s car bombing.
I love weapons, I’ve shot a Tommy gun and an M-16, and I have several “assault weapons” hanging over my bed, but I don’t think this is an innocent gun collecter. I think they are using the guns to hold him and investigate the attempted murder.
Just speculating, but to FIND something like this is going to require a snitch or some fancy gadgetry and a search warrant.
If they'd been found on his property, I'd speculate that they'd likely all been de-milled. Grenades being delivered to the Mag Bag, owned by one of the Branch Davidians, was the initial "tip off" to the BATF, of course those were demilled, and had been used to make "Complaint Department" desk novelties.
Since they were not found on his property, they likely jumped on him because he's the nearest registered owner of grenada launcher.
Some background on the good ‘doctor’
Dr. Randeep Mann
Specialty
Internist
Education
Armed Forces Med Coll, Univ Of Pune, Pune, Maharashtra, India
http://www.wellness.com/dir/2015768/internist/ar/russellville/randeep-mann-md
and
http://www.arktimes.com/blogs/arkansasblog/2009/03/more_on_mann.aspx
“Mann has a history of problems before the medical board for overprescribing pain medications to patients — investigators linked eight deaths to Dr. Mann, though he said not all of them were his patients — and prescribing methadone without the proper clinical license. His DEA license was revoked in 2003 for one year and in 2006 for an indefinite period and his efforts to get the license restored have been unsuccessful.”
Which means in real terms that HE had the paperwork and the ATF's records were trash (as usual).
How exactly is he being arrested for stuff found NEAR his home? Unless it was on his property he has nothing to explain.
Sounds like this guy was ready for TEOTWAWKI.
This amount of weapons should be present on every other street, and probably would be if the country was not run by evil power hungry bastards.
More:
“In Arkansas, Dr. Randeep Mann claims that a patient approached him in 2002 and told him that a federal agent had offered her $250 to say that Mann had prescribed her painkillers in exchange for sex. Mann also charges that another female patient told him that local authorities had offered to forgive her cocaine arrest if she told the same lie in court. “They destroyed my practice and they’ve managed to run away a lot of my patients, and I can no longer prescribe opioids, but I still have my license,” Mann tells the Voice.”
That means the ATF is busy grinding down the numbers so they have some evidence.
Because that is where the paid informant told them he had buried them. Sort of smells doesn't it!!!
This Dr. Feelgood obviously had the motive and the means to kill Dr. Pierce. The question is whether they have any real evidence to pin the bombing on him.
Just a metal detector would do it. You can buy those at outdoor and sporting goods stores everywhere, even buy them over the internet.
But why would they go looking in a field for something, absent the snitch, or absent them putting them there in the first place?.
Anyone from the area know this guy?
Do Sikhs keep hogs?
A doctor with an explosive hobby?
GROAN!!!!
Finder’s keeper’s
but did he have the grenades under his bed? :-)
You should be sorry for that horrid visual. Next thing you say will probably be Helen Thomas in a bikini.
Nice starter collection........:o)
If he did keep hogs, they are probably hungry...
The ATF may have been worried about this guy because of Nuclear One, a nuclear reactor used to generate electricity that is in Russellville on Lake Dardenelle.
“And by the way, every home should have at least one crew served weapon.”
I have a 24 Pdr. Coehorn Mortar. Uses a three man crew.
The BATFE did it (Gun Confiscation) in New Orleans, and led the local PD and the California Highway Patrol in the gun confiscation raids there, until the Bush led Justice Department ordered them to cease and desist...
Ping
They don’t call it Little ROCK for nothing I guess. Just AWESOME. He should have let me keep some of that stock for him , in case he got in such a bind as he did. Spread the wealth Doc.
IMO, it’s not really a good idea for the Police State Gun Nazis to send a really smart guy like the patriot Doc here AWOL. They should have just left him alone, but now he’s going to be a life-long raging rightwingnut against all this illegal gun grabbing. Welcome to the club, Doc.
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