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Police Seize 601 Guns In Arrest
June 10, 2007 By CHRISTINE DEMPSEY, Courant Staff Writer
SOMERS -- A 63-year-old local man was in jail Saturday on gun theft charges after state and federal authorities seized more than 600 guns from his house.
Armed with a search warrant, state police and members of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives removed 601 guns - 28 of which were stolen - from the house at 159 Mountain View Road. Police arrived at the home Friday afternoon and remained on the scene until early Saturday morning, state police said.
Brian H. McClelland was charged with 28 counts each of stealing a firearm and first-degree larceny by possession. He was being held at the Hartford Correctional Center on Weston Street Saturday with bail set at $1 million.
Among the stolen guns were 27 handguns and one rifle. Of the other 573 guns, Lt. J. Paul Vance said some were long and some were short. Police plan to examine each one and trace where it came from, he said.
Asked why McClelland had an arsenal, Vance said, "We don't have any indication whatsoever."
A state police press release called the gun investigation "extensive," but Vance could not say if other suspects are being sought.
"It's too early to say," he said.
A state police detective assigned to the state police Statewide Firearms Trafficking Task Force conducted the probe, the release said.
On Saturday night, no one answered the door at 159 Mountain View Road, a house with gray siding set back from a country road.
One neighbor, who did not want to give her name, said it was "a shock" to learn that McClelland had so many guns. She didn't know him very well. "You never see him," she said.
Around the block from the house, two other neighbors were chatting Saturday. The men, who also asked not to be identified, said they too did not know McClelland well.
When told the amount of his bail, one of them said, "A million dollars bail? Good."
http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-1s.1.sunrdrbox.artjun10,0,5515646.story
Police Seize 601 Guns In Arrest
June 10, 2007 By CHRISTINE DEMPSEY, Courant Staff Writer
SOMERS -- A 63-year-old local man was in jail Saturday on gun theft charges after state and federal authorities seized more than 600 guns from his house.
Armed with a search warrant, state police and members of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives removed 601 guns - 28 of which were stolen - from the house at 159 Mountain View Road. Police arrived at the home Friday afternoon and remained on the scene until early Saturday morning, state police said.
Brian H. McClelland was charged with 28 counts each of stealing a firearm and first-degree larceny by possession. He was being held at the Hartford Correctional Center on Weston Street Saturday with bail set at $1 million.
Among the stolen guns were 27 handguns and one rifle. Of the other 573 guns, Lt. J. Paul Vance said some were long and some were short. Police plan to examine each one and trace where it came from, he said.
Asked why McClelland had an arsenal, Vance said, "We don't have any indication whatsoever."
A state police press release called the gun investigation "extensive," but Vance could not say if other suspects are being sought.
"It's too early to say," he said.
A state police detective assigned to the state police Statewide Firearms Trafficking Task Force conducted the probe, the release said.
On Saturday night, no one answered the door at 159 Mountain View Road, a house with gray siding set back from a country road.
One neighbor, who did not want to give her name, said it was "a shock" to learn that McClelland had so many guns. She didn't know him very well. "You never see him," she said.
Around the block from the house, two other neighbors were chatting Saturday. The men, who also asked not to be identified, said they too did not know McClelland well.
When told the amount of his bail, one of them said, "A million dollars bail? Good."
http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-1s.1.sunrdrbox.artjun10,0,5515646.story
