Surgeon is held on weapons, sex charges

Sac Bee ^ | 6/14/06 | Carrie Peyton Dahlberg and Christina Jewett

[Pro-Bush]

A Carmichael plastic surgeon was being held on sex and weapons charges Wednesday after police found an armor-penetrating rocket launcher, machine guns and dozens of other weapons in his sprawling ranch home. Dr. Scott Takasugi, known by neighbors for his lavish Halloween parties, dapper clothes and luxury car collection, was being investigated for sexual exploitation of patients when the cache was found. Click here for more... Federal and military investigators worked until dawn Wednesday assessing and hauling out weapons. Among them were a live a shoulder-fired battlefield weapon called a "LAW Rocket," along with machine guns, guns equipped with laser sights or silencers and thousands of rounds of ammunition, said Sacramento Sheriff's Sgt. Judd Holiday. The assortment went far beyond a recreational gun collection, said Holiday, who supervises the county's bomb squad. "When you start keeping things that can cause death to a large number of people, that's a different story," he said. Sheriff's spokesman R.L. Davis said most officers would go an entire career without seeing such a heavy-duty military weapon. The doctor's attorney, John Panneton, declined to discuss the collection, saying only "my client has a presumption of innocence. He intends to plead not guilty to the charges, and he vigorously will defend himself." Holiday said he saw nothing in the house to suggest that Takasugi had plans to use the items against anyone, although the investigation is ongoing. Takasugi, 53, was arrested on 11 sex and weapon counts, including suspicion of sexual exploitation by a physician, penetration by a foreign object, unauthorized possession of a machine gun and possession of a destructive device, said Davis.

[Slings and Arrows]

Also, his recently ex-girlfriend works in law enforcement.

"Hell hath no fury..." I have a sneaky feeling as to what happened here.

[familyop]

"Awwww man! I want a LAW!"

In the movies, they sound like bottle rockets and fizzle to the target. The real ones make a big boom on your shoulder and a little shock wave when fired (with a big back-blast behind you). ...kinda gets old, if you have to fire them for many hours, many times on ranges--even the practice ones with dummy rounds that only clang on the steel targets. Firing so many weapons and so much demo so many hours and so many times on ranges for a few years sort of took away any desire out of me to do recreational activities with firearms. ;-)

Life is now good with peace and quiet. ;-)

[familyop]

"...took any desire out of me to do," even.

[Luke Skyfreeper]

Not even deer hunting with artillery???

[familyop]

"Not even deer hunting with artillery???"

LOL! ...not even that. But I wish that all who remain enthusiastic could come and legally do that in my area. The blacktail deer are like roaches here. It's hard to miss them on the roads any time that we drive.

[Clock King]

"Hell hath no fury..." I have a sneaky feeling as to what happened here.

Yep. And you know this...!

[DainBramage]

This happens every time a damn Japs watches 'Bridge over the River Kwai'. JMHO

[ovrtaxt]

Plastic surgeons are a weird lot.

[tcostell]

That is FANTASTIC!....

[caver]

That is great! I was showing this to several people here. We all got a kick out of it.

[null and void]

Life is now good with peace and quiet. ;-)

I live on a main drag. I figure taking out a few of the automobile mounted concert sound systems would suffice for the rest to get the message...

[null and void]

Your kinda thread...

[OmahaFields]

"police found an armor-penetrating rocket launcher, .....was arrested on 11 sex and weapon counts, including suspicion of sexual exploitation by a physician, penetration by a foreign object, unauthorized possession of a machine gun and possession of a destructive device, said Davis.

hmmmm

[Darksheare]

I'd use one on teh woodchucks.
Overkill?
No such thing to an artilleryman.

[null and void]

I thought you used vomit comets on upchucks?

[Darksheare]

Yes, on upchucks, but on woodchucks you use 'hyper expanding volatile reactions'.

[MHGinTN]

But was he a good surgeon?

[null and void]

Ah.

[jrp]

I don't believe anything said by the press or "police spokesman" regarding firearms, especially in California. These people wouldn't know a real machine gun from an Airsoft toy. The LAW will most likely turn out to be inert/deactivated. And a couple thousand rounds of ammo is 4 bricks of .22LR. Whooo, scary.

[aculeus]

The doctor's attorney, John Panneton, declined to discuss the collection, saying only "my client has a presumption of innocence. He intends to plead not guilty to the charges, and he vigorously will defend himself."

Translation: I can't help this guy but I accepted his retainer.