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.
Very true
ATF agents ARE NAZI THUGS!
It’s also true that if this fella was “Christ-like” his family pet would have been shot along with his Wife & kids!!
I’ve never thought we see the day when an “agency” has MORE power than a JUDGE...Yep~ Just like Hitler’s SS
Okay thats when I would say I have “enough” ammo for my personal use...
Liberal troll - you're not a FReeper! That's not nearly enough!
LOLOL!!
Try dynamite - it’s the one bait ALL fish rise to!
They can’t look at this guy’s credit card records to see if he purchased morphine over the internet? People are able to do that? Where?
Okay, since the reporting is a little shoddy I have to do some assumptions here. I’m going to assume that all of these “live grenades” are 40 mm for either an M79 or M203. That being the case, the reporter needs to find out if these are HE rounds. I mean, having a 100 smoke rounds isn’t going to hurt anyone. Of course, I guess it sounds more menacing to say live grenades without filling in any of the details.
Don’t get me wrong, I think this doctor is probably a bad character because I think he’s illegally selling perscriptions to addicts. However, if he has an FFL license and is legal for all of this stuff, who cares? Really?
But the same beginnings that ended up with the Nazi atrocities are now present in our Nations Federal law enforcement branch.
L.O.L!!!!
During a trip to a local Gun shop the store worker advised a costumer that the ATF was “looking” into all his recent purchases?? Goes to show that they DO keep records!!
This agency is way out of hand....I talked to this fella outside and told him to find a good lawyer and file a suit in advance of the coming raid!
Perhaps, but under the Obama redistribution plan it sounds to me like he should share the ammo "wealth" and spread some of those 500,000 rounds of ammo to less fortunate militias in the area.
Awww heckkkkk!
I waaaaaaaaaant ten of those! (and 500 rounds each of 00, #3, #4, and rifled slugs for each unit, total: 20,000)
Drooling like a four year old in the ice cream store in mid July...
A.A.C.
As for the number of LEGAL guns he has, that doesn't matter any more. The BATFE has just been targeting folks with "lots" of guns. Anything where a big pile of junk looks scary for the MSM vultures.
"Presumption of innocence" is dead.
He had 98 of those rounds.
We did exchange phone numbers~ I did pledge my help in any way shape or form! This man is nothing more than a hard working wood cutter from a VERY Red State..Like many of us finds Obama’s election disturbing to say the least!
oh the irony.
A doctor can legally cut a baby out of a woman’s stomach, crack its skull and throw the baby into a garbage dumpster.. These “doctors” are praised for having the courage to uphold freedom of speech.
Same doctor has a legal inventory of legal ammunition and firearms....the feds bury a bunch of shit in an adjacent field to set the guy up.
Typical metropolitan bull$#!t.
Just over eight dozen and I’m jealous.
It was a flip remark. I was speaking to someone else.
If he did something illegal, it was poor planning on his part.
If on the other hand he didn’t, we can best serve him by supporting the NRA and other gun groups. A shootout this early would be a mistake.
We’ll never know the full story behind this. It’s the feral government we’re talking about.
Just like the BATFE is currently trying to do with Cav Arms. Day 376 since the raid. It sounds like Red's is still up in the air. There are more examples, but I don't have them here.
Ok, now the question is what can be done to rein in, or disband the BATFE?
Applied for a C&R recently.... Maybe I’ll send it back to them when I get it.
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