Posted on 03/10/2009 7:44:40 AM PDT by DCBryan1
Agent details arms cache found in home of doctor
BY LINDA SATTER ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
Along with 98 live grenades and 110 machine guns, federal agents found $50,000 in cash, 500,000 rounds of ammunition and a gun-concealing briefcase with a trigger built into the handle [A $5 registered AOW-emphisis mine] during a search last week of the Pope County home of Dr. Randeep Mann, a federal agent testified Monday.
David Oliver of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives testified at a detention hearing for Mann that continues today. U.S. Magistrate Judge H. David Young will decide whether Mann should remain in custody.
Oliver also revealed that Mann is the subject of an ongoing investigation by the state Medical Board into whether he has bought controlled substances, including morphine, over the Internet and then sold them to patients, despite voluntarily surrendering his permit to prescribe such medications in 2006 to stop the board from revoking his medical license.
Oliver testified that in a letter to the board, Mann complained that the agreement has caused other states to deny him a license, and that it limits his income by keeping him from working in hospitals and participating in thirdparty insurance programs.
The agent said Mann implied in the letter that he was being targeted for sanctions because of his Indian nationality, writing, “Although it may sound a little ridiculous in 2008, my troubles started after Sept. 11, 2001.”
Mann, 50, has appeared before the board at least three times in the past five years, accused of prescribing large doses of narcotics such as methadone and Oxycontin to patients who had histories of drug abuse. He has twice seen his authority to prescribe scheduled medications revoked.
A wrongful-death lawsuit in which Mann is accused of being responsible for the deaths of patients who died of overdoses is scheduled for trial in Pope County on March 23.
The federal bureau has said that Mann’s arrest last week at his home in London, in southwestern Pope County, isn’t related to an ongoing investigation into a Feb. 4 car bombing that seriously wounded Dr. Trent Pierce, the board chairman. Pierce lost an eye and suffered burns on his face and body; he remains hospitalized in Memphis.
Mann’s arrest on a federal complaint charging him with possessing unregistered firearms stemmed from a search warrant executed last week at his home, located about half a mile from a nuclear power plant [Arkansas Nuclear One in Russellville, AR].
The state warrant was issued a day after water meter readers for the city of London went into a wooded area near the home to urinate and tripped over a partially buried military container wrapped in duct tape and plastic.
[Yeah right].
Inside the container, Oliver said, were 98 live grenades and one practice grenade, all designed to be fired from a gun and considered “instruments of war with no social purpose.”
[located 900 feet from Doctor's home off of his property]
Five similar canisters and 45 practice grenades were found inside a garage at Mann’s home, while two grenade launchers were found in a safe in the basement.
[Both the M203 and M79 were probably "Form 1" guns that he legally built and registered with the $200.00 tax, with ATF approval].
Oliver acknowledged that as a licensed federal firearms dealer, Mann legally possessed most of the machine guns found throughout the house. But of 17 guns whose registration couldn’t quickly be verified,[in other words, ATF's paperwork is F**ked up, as usual], Oliver said agents have so far determined that three were not registered at all and a fourth was registered to someone in Connecticut.
[COMMON PLACE when someone is an FFL! They transfer to individuals by a Form 4, Cops/Military by a Form 10, and dealers with a Form 3!].
Also found at the house were several loaded pistols, and boxes of new rifles and gun parts, Oliver said
[Sounds like every house in Arkansas].
He testified that Mann’s father, Col. Kuldip Singh Mann, was once in the Indian military and is an international arms dealer. Oliver said that federal databases show numerous border crossings by Randeep Mann and various family members using his address in the past few years. The databases show 121 border crossings, or 60 trips, for Randeep Mann in the last two years, and 325 crossings for his father. Oliver said he didn’t know which countries were visited by the men.
[If I was a doctor, I'd travel alot also, esp. to my home country].
Inside Mann’s home, Oliver said agents found three boxes containing 750 tablets each of a generic form of Xanax. Xanax is one of the medicines that are the subject of the Medical Board’s investigation of Mann, Oliver said. He said the generic Xanax, as well as anabolic steroids also found in the house, were both manufactured in India.
[He is a doctor! Hell, my family has doctors that probably has sales samples, and aren't most medicines made outside of US anyways?]
Oliver also testified that according to the Arkansas State Police, someone reported seeing C-4, a controlled military explosive, at Mann’s house, although Oliver said none was found during the search. Defense attorney Blake Hendrix questioned whether the tip came from a credible source.
[LOL...ATF paid informants sound good when the warrant is signed, but in court, they never show up].
During Mann’s arraignment last week in Young’s Little Rock courtroom, another agent saw Mann turn toward the gallery and give his wife a “menacing stare” while making a throat- slashing motion, which the agent took as a warning that she shouldn’t talk, Oliver testified.
[BATF=Bad Attitudes Towards Freedom, especially when you practice the right to remain silent].
Asked whether additional charges are anticipated against Mann, the agent replied, “Absolutely.”
Young also heard testimony on Monday from Bobbi Spradlin, an IRS investigator, who said the agency is investigating a report that Mann has moved some of his money and assets into overseas accounts to protect them from the pending lawsuit.
The state police confiscated Randeep Mann’s concealed-handgun permit, spokesman Bill Sadler told The Associated Press. Sadler said that the license will be suspended until Mann is convicted or acquitted of the charges against him.
Q: How do you know when an BATF agent is lying?
A: His lips move!
Note the plural - water meter readers - went into the wooded area to urinate. Sounds suspicious to me. Did they hold each other's 'units' while doing so? How far into the 'woods' did they trespass? Did they have a permit for tandem urinating? So many unanswered questions, so little information...
/s
Yes, kinds like that. I also dream of hunting with an AK on full auto.........
Perhaps you were being flip, but you’re using the words of the gun-grabbers to a T.
a golf ball is about 40mm, could you use it for a driver? :)
“This guys weapons didn’t do squat to defend him from unConstitutional government.
Nor do I see thousands of Patriots running to his aid.”
Sad but true!!
The States are corrupted by money & Most Americans have become fearful of THEIR Government! They say the Federal Constitution is Supreme & it best that of the States..Then I ask who’s to stop them when they operate like Stalinist? The Bill of Rights was to place chains on this beast of a Federal Government..That whole Supreme clause has been used to turn us into Slaves..Nothing more
Let me get this right:
The doctor is definately an intelligent man.
He likes firearms, and procured an FFL.
He paid for the FFL and proper Form 4 paperwork for the transferable machineguns...
...He form 1'd the Grenade Launchers and paid the applicable tax on them.
He legally owns ammuntion and practice grenades.
BUT HE IS DUMB ENOUGH TO HALF-ASS BURY HIGH EXPLOSIVES NEXT TO HIS HOUSE WHERE SOME JOE CAN TRIP OVER IT???!!!!
IMMEDIATELY AFTER A STATE POLICE INSPECTION OF HIS INVENTORY BY A "METER READER" TAKING LEAK?!
I CALL BULLSHIT! This smells like a setup.
Anyone dumb enough to skirt the grey area of NFA violations would WELL distance themselves from such a charge. If I owned an M203 and wanted to stash HE, I would do it MILES, if not a couple of counties away from me. NOT NEXT to all of my worldly possessions.
/art bell rant off.
The BATFE should not exist. What part of the 2nd amendment is so hard for people to comprehend?
Like Stuart on MAD YV, "Look what WE can do!".
Good thing this guy is of Indian descent.
If he were a Christian gun owner, they would have conducted a full-on military assault, eventually resulting in the incineration of Mann, women, children, and pets in his family.
Most of the Americans I've met that happen to be of Indian descent, are outstanding citizens.
I think this guy is likely as well, and is just being rail-roaded for the "grandstanding" purposes of federal "law" (read that, unlawful) enforcement.
The JBTs are emboldened by their left-wing, anti-gun, anti-2nd Amendment, decidedly UN-AMERICAN masters in congress, and appear to be on the march against us law-abiding citizens.
I don’t know if I believe that any more.
BATF agents, the other, OTHER white (and dark) meat. :)
Yeah I think that's it!
A black scary looking 'high powered rifle' with all that 'military stuff' and high capacity bullet clippy thing-a-ma-jig and has that 'flash-suppressor-silencer' thing on the gun barrel. Plus that 'Laser Aiming Gizmo' on the side.
Yep, that 'shotgun'.
;-)
some “investors” are right.
This exists in a "free" Country? That's Third World fear. That's Soviet KGB fear. That's Nazi SS fear.
And it's working. People are staying put. Keeping their mouths shut when the Doctor down the street gets raided or the collector they see once in a while around town.
This same paralysis gripped the Germans when the Jews down the street went missing.
Cav Arms got raided over a YEAR ago. Thousands in inventory seized. STILL no charges filed. Red's almost got taken out and is still trying to recover. Len Savage has been under attack lately. The recent SCOTUS case against Beretta hasn't seemed to slow down the harassment lawsuits in other jurisdictions.
How many stories have we read right here where a collector/ffl/c&r gets taken down and we never hear another word on it? The cases get put on the back shelf, the po-buckers go under without a peep, and the media looks for the next target to demonize.
That depends on how many different calibers it was. 20000 for ma deuce 400 81mm etc. :-)
Yep... they want that right to self-defense gone so that they can cow the population. [Un]Fortunately they seem to have forgotten that cows can kick.
Another observation about this story is the hand grenades that were found.
According to the Supreme Court in the US v Miller decision, sawed off shotguns serve no useful military purpose in regards to a “well regulated militia.”
So, according to that ruling, since hand grenades serve a military purpose, they aren’t illegal for private citizens to own.
http://law.jrank.org/pages/12810/United-States-v-Miller.html
Which makes the following line by the BATF agent a display of willful ignorance, or, a public official drunk with power:
Inside the container, Oliver said, were 98 live grenades and one practice grenade, all designed to be fired from a gun and considered “instruments of war with no social purpose.”
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