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Deputies estimate that they've seized between 7,000 and 10,000 stolen guns from a house and warehouse near Pageland. Deputies have arrested Brent Nicholson in connection to the stolen goods. Chesterfield County Sheriff Jay Brooks says the seized guns, ammunition, and hundreds of other items were all found on a single property off of Highway 9 outside of Pageland city limits. Brooks says the guns alone filled one tractor trailer and ammunition filled another. Nicholson was arrested and charged with trafficking opium and heroin, earlier in the week in Union County. Deputies reportedly went to serve him with a subpoena Friday...

Chesterfield County sheriff's deputies arrested Brent Nicholson, 51, of Pageland Saturday. The guns were found stacked in his house, a nearby storage building, a liquor store he runs with his father and at his parents' home, The Charlotte Observer in North Carolina reported. “There were so many guns we quit counting after a while,” Sheriff Jay Brooks said. "This investigation is far from over." Besides the guns, authorities also found crossbows, ammunition, taxidermed animal heads and scores of chainsaws. The sheriff said it didn't appear Nicholson was accumulating weapons, not selling them.

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, S.C. (WBTV) —Deputies estimate that they've seized between 7,000 and 10,000 stolen guns from a house and warehouse near Pageland. Deputies have arrested Brent Nicholson in connection with the stolen goods. Chesterfield County Sheriff Jay Brooks said the seized guns, ammunition and hundreds of other items were all found on a single property off Highway 9 outside Pageland city limits. Brooks said the guns alone filled one tractor-trailer and ammunition filled another. Nicholson has been arrested and charged with trafficking opium and heroin earlier in the week in Union County. Deputies reportedly went to serve him with a...