Assault Rifle, Ammo Found In Car Trunk [Philly]

MyFoxPhilly.com ^ | June 2, 2009 | unattributed

[smokingfrog]

An assault rifle, with close to a hundred rounds of ammunition, and other evidence were found in the trunk of a parolee's car.

The startling discovery makes police believe they may have prevented a tragedy.

An alert parole agent and city police just may have headed off a violent confrontation before it ever happened when they acted on their instincts and checked out the car of a former inmate when he came to check in with his parole agent, reported Fox 29’s Dave Schratwieser.

When 29-year-old Alexander Rivera reported to his parole agent on Monday at 13th Street and Clearfield Street, the agent said Rivera was acting suspiciously so she locked him in a holding cell and went to search his car. Inside, she found a civilian version of the AK-47 assault rifle.

“He's got that kind of weapon in his vehicle. He's going to see a parole officer while he's got this kind of stuff in the car. I mean, you know, for what?” asks Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey.

The semiautomatic assault rifle and the 100 round drum magazine were found in the trunk along with a hoodie, a black mask, work gloves and Internet material on how to purchase a bulletproof vest. Rivera was arrested on the spot.

While parole officers were searching Rivera's car, one of his friends arrived on the scene and asked to take possession of the car. When police checked his car, they found drugs and another weapon.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"The only thing mass produced in Islam is kids."

Don't forget bomb vests, which sort of nullifies the mass production of kids...

[El Gato]

with a Soviet SKS assault rifle,

Unlikely. First of all the SKS is not an assault rifle, it's a simple semiautomatic carbine. There is no full auto version, even the ones issued to various militaries and "insurgent" groups were all semiautomatic. Second, the Russian ones are pretty rare in the US. Chinese wer very common before importation was banned, now Yugoslavian versions are most often seen, but those from eastern european former Soviet block states are also seen. But not Soviet built ones. Of course the original design did come from the Soviet union, SKS stands for Samozaryadniy Karabin sistemi Simonova (Russian: Самозарядный карабин системы Симонова), 1945 (Self-loading Carbine, Simonov's system, 1945),

[mad_as_he$$]

lol True.

[smokingfrog]

Yeah, he could have definitely done some damage with that drum mag.