A California driver pulled alongside another motorist on the 10 Freeway and pointed a gun \u2014 and it was that act of road rage, authorities say, that led investigators to an astonishing cache of illegal weapons. <\/p>\n
The events leading to the discovery of the suspect\u2019s arsenal began on July 15 in the city of Redlands when the California Highway Patrol responded to a report of a road rage incident on Interstate 10 near Live Oak Canyon Road, according to the CHP.<\/p>\n
A driver in a Ford vehicle pulled alongside another vehicle and pointed a handgun at the occupants, investigators said in a statement. The victims, they said, then provided the license plate of the suspect\u2019s vehicle.<\/p>\n
CHP investigators later identified the suspect as Robert Valdez, 52, of Yucaipa.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, investigators found Valdez and his Ford in Redlands and conducted a traffic stop, arresting him without incident.<\/p>\n
But during a search of his vehicle, investigators said, they recovered a revolver and additional ammunition, as well as speed loaders, which allow multiple chambers of a gun to be loaded at once.<\/p>\n
CHP investigators said they later executed a search warrant at Valdez\u2019s home.<\/p>\n
There, they found an extensive arsenal. About 20 illegal firearms, including assault rifles, AR-15-style rifles, long-range rifles, shotguns and suppressed handguns were recovered.<\/p>\n
Investigators also seized about 20,000 rounds of ammunition, including armor-piercing rounds, multiple firearm suppressors and about 15 firearm milling fixtures used to illegally manufacture and modify AR-15-style lower receivers, according to the statement.<\/p>\n
Valdez was booked on suspicion of brandishing a firearm, unlawful possession of a firearm, possession of an assault weapon and possession of a suppressor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A California driver pulled alongside another motorist on the 10 Freeway and pointed a gun \u2014 and it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1871,169274,73080,6577,7,58320,9,8,852,169813,53847,3816,169815,8633,14440,169814,2131,86942],"class_list":["post-426067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-act","tag-additional-ammunition","tag-arsenal","tag-authority","tag-california","tag-california-driver","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-chp","tag-ford-vehicle","tag-illegal-firearm","tag-investigator","tag-massive-weapon-cache","tag-redlands","tag-road-rage","tag-robert-valdez","tag-suspect","tag-unlawful-possession"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}