AP – An Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms officer makes his way up a driveway during a raid on a home Tuesday, …
Adam Gitschlag is an ex-Marine, who is being accused of being the head of some ring that was selling assault riffles to gang members.
Federal agents have arrested three retired Marines suspected of selling illegal assault weapons to a notorious Los Angeles street gang, authorities said Tuesday.
The suspected ringleader, Adam Gitschlag, who served in Iraq and was once based at Camp Pendleton, was arrested at his Orange County home Nov. 2 as part of an operation carried out by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, as well as military investigators and local police.
The arrests were announced a week after a Navy SEAL in San Diego and two others were charged with smuggling machine guns from Iraq for sale on the black market.
Reached on his cell phone, Gitschlag said the charges are "definitely untrue," and that he is a private weapons collector and patriot who has worked hard to serve his country.
"I did not sell any gang memebers any weapons," he said. "I love my country with all my heart. I would never expect my government to do this."
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I'm not sure what to believe here. I guess we'll have to wait and see how this one turns out. I've known a few Marines and, they are slightly crazy but, stupid? No. This seems like a stupid thing to do.
The ATF says the deal was carried out June 23 in the parking lot of a Pasadena post office. Gitschlag, along with another former Marine, met with a postal service supervisor, a Florencia 13 street gang member and other associates, and sold them the weapons for $6,000, the ATF said.
Unbeknown to Gitschlag, one of the men was working as an ATF informant.
In front of the F-13 gang member, the informant asked Gitschlag if he would be willing to sell more firearms to other gang members in the future. He agreed, according to a search warrant affidavit.
The gang member never took possession of the weapons, and the informant gave them to ATF agents after the sale.
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