A Calgary man has been busted for his connection to organized crime and owning several illegal guns after posing with them on social media. <\/p>\n
Jesse C. Bain, 37, was arrested on March 5 by police during the execution of a search warrant at a property on Home Road NW. <\/p>\n
During the search, officers found a loaded GSG-16 .22 calibre rifle, a Savage Axis .308 calibre rifle (confirmed to be stolen), a Stevens Model 320 sawed-off 12-gauge shotgun, a\u00a01897 12-gauge shotgun, an operational taser, body armour, and 3D printed brass knuckles. <\/p>\n
Police also found a loaded Glock 30 .45 calibre handgun was also seized from Bain\u2019s vehicle. <\/p>\n
The Calgarian has been charged with two counts\u00a0of breaching a firearms prohibition order, and one count each of unsafe storage of a firearm, unauthorized possession of a firearm, unauthorized possession of a firearm in a vehicle, possession of a prohibited firearm with ammunition, possession of a firearm obtained by crime, possession of firearm with a defaced serial number and unlawful possession of body armour. <\/p>\n
\u201cOur officers acted quickly to remove a significant threat from the community,\u201d said Staff Sgt. Matt Gow of the Calgary Police Service Gun Violence Enforcement Team. \u201cOur priority is always to keep Calgarians safe, and thanks to the collaboration and thorough police work from numerous areas across the Service, we\u2019re grateful this situation was resolved safely.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bain is set to appear in court on Tuesday. <\/p>\n
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact police by calling 403-266-1234 or tipping anonymously through CrimeStoppers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Calgary man has been busted for his connection to organized crime and owning several illegal guns after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-540667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-calgary","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-calgary","10":"tag-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}