Posted on 03/06/2009 2:27:43 PM PST by DCBryan1
Doctor Arrested on Grenade Charges
Little Rock - A doctor who has been sanctioned by the state medical board was arrested after grenades were found in a field near his home, but authorities say the arrest is not tied to a recent car bombing that seriously wounded the board's chairman.
Dr. Randeep Mann, an internal medicine specialist from Russellville, was arrested by federal agents on a charge of possession of unregistered firearms. He is expected to remain in federal custody at least until a bond hearing Monday in federal court in Little Rock.
An ATF afidavit says agents interviewed Mann in February after the car bomb in West Memphis critically injured the head of the state medical board. Mann showed them his grenade launcher at the time. Say It On 7:
But Austin Banks, a special agent with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, says Mann's arrest this week was not tied to the investigation into the February 4th car bombing that wounded Dr. Trent Pierce. Pierce remains in critical condition at a Memphis hospital.
Banks said the arrest resulted from a complaint to the Pope County Sheriff's Office about grenades found in a field near Mann's residence.
The affidavit says a canister buried on the property contained 98 grenades, the kind used in grenade launchers. ATF searched the property and found 5 more canisters, similar to the one that was buried. The affidavit says agents found two grenade launchers in a safe in the basement and 110 fully automatic machine guns valued at more than $1 million located throughout Mann's house.
The affidavit says the ATF could not determine if 17 of the machine guns were legally registered to Mann.
Drake Mann, who represents the doctor but is no relation to him, said he spoke to the doctor but they are still studying the allegations. The lawyer said he doesn't think the government knows what its intentions are.
In 2006, the state board restricted Mann's prescription-writing privileges after several of his patients died from a lethal mix of drugs or overdose of prescription medicine. Mann maintained the issue was not the prescriptions but the patients' abuse of the drugs.
Mann and the board reached an agreement by which Mann was allowed to keep his medical license but was barred from prescribing narcotics.
Three years earlier, the board had suspended Mann from prescribing controlled substances for one year.
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Randeep Singh Mann of London, AR (near Russellville) was taken into federal custody Wednesday after explosives found buried in a field matched explosives found in his garage.
The federal agents found canisters containing:
almost 100 grenade of various types, the majority being:
40mm HE, M406 rounds and some M781 practice rounds.
The grenades were designed to be fired from an M79 or M203 grenade launcher, of which he had licenses for.
Federal agents also found one hundred and ten (110) fully automatic machine guns they valued at more than $1 million (I would estimate 5-10 million...If they were all Mac-10s,then that would be $400k worth by their crappy selves).
It is reported that the agents could not determine registration on seventeen (17) of the guns.
Mann does not have a Destructive Device license in order to possess the 40mm M406 destructive devices, but does have paperwork to own the grenade launchers.
The charges pending against him will be for the possession of unregistered firearms and explosives.
I wish a good lawyer would take this to the USSC and get 922(0) overturned, and affirm the right of citizens to keep and bear arms (yes even grenades).
Unfortunately, we will probably see 110 machineguns destroyed unless he can transfer them to ME (wink wink) before conviction. From what I understand, he had a COMPLETE WW2 collection to include an FG42 (value $100k+), Johnson M1941 LMG ($45k+), Sten Mk I suppressed (value $20k+), and a Colt Monitor (Value >$100k).
How are they connecting the grenades to him, as they were found buried in a field near his house?
As the BATF is notorious for its poor record keeping, and he legally had dozens of machine guns, why am I not surprised that they claim that they have no record of some of the machine guns that he has?
Lots of details are out there that we have not been told yet.
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(And by the way, every home should have at least one crew served weapon.)
Wow, this doesn’t sound like a setup or anything. Where in the Constitution does it say that citizens are not allowed to own a particular type of weapon? Or explosive devices? Dianne Feinstein must be wetting herself with delight (sorry for the horrid visual).
Randeep Singh Mann of London, ARAccording to Hillary, this guy should have been half-owner of a convenience story, and not a doctor.
IMHO this guy should be your typical neighbor.
How, exactly, are they linking grenades found in a field to him? The leaps of intuition among BATFE agents are astounding.
Now why would anyone need 110 machi... machi... machi...
Nope, can’t do it. Apparently I lack the Marxist Gun Grabber gene!
It’s another tragic story about a well-armed citizen getting the shaft by frightened feds.
Mouth watering covet, covet.
NOTE TO SELF: BURY YOUR M406 Grenades in an adjacent National Forest and ENCRYPT the GPS coordinates. NOT ON YOUR OWN PROPERTY!
Put me on the jury.
Perfect for your neighborhood "looter shooter".
Amen. I would acquit and ask why everyone didn’t have a nice, even, collection as he did?
I shot one of those while in country and I can say it is truely a duster!
The ATF did it to Randy Weaver.
They did it to many, many others, killing pregnant women and stomping pet cats along the way.
The ATF wants gun owners disarmed. They will do anything - ANYTHING - to accomplish that goal. Jack booted thugs, indeed.
Absolutely, what do you think I had kids for?
They weren't ON his property, but rather in a field NEAR his property.
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