LOOT REPORTEDLY TRADED FOR DRUGS, TATTOOS; MAN ARRESTED; STOLEN MERCHANDISE SEIZED.Byline: Bhavna Mistry Daily News Staff Writer Deputies arrested a tattoo artist A tattoo artist (also tattooer or tattooist) is a person who applies permanent decorative tattoos, often in a dedicated business called a tattoo shop, tattoo studio or tattoo parlour. who they say performed tattoos and traded drugs in exchange for stolen merchandise. In the apartment of Dennis Voshall, they said they found a semiautomatic Thompson submachine gun submachine gun Lightweight automatic small-arms weapon chambered for relatively low-energy pistol cartridges and fired from the hip or shoulder. Submachine guns usually have box-type magazines that hold 10–50 cartridges, or occasionally drums holding more rounds. - the ``Tommy gun'' of World War II and gangster movies - plus five other guns, computer equipment, two-way radios, cellular phones and other items believed to be stolen. ``It's significant because of the amount of merchandise recovered,'' said Deputy Brian Schoonmaker. ``We're still sorting out where all the items came from.'' Voshall, 28, was being held at the Lancaster sheriff's station in lieu of $75,000 bail on suspicion of possession of a machine gun, possession of narcotics narcotics n. 1) techinically, drugs which dull the senses. 2) a popular generic term for drugs which cannot be legally possessed, sold, or transported except for medicinal uses for which a physician or dentist's prescription is required. for sale and receiving stolen property. The items were found in Voshall's bedroom in the apartment he shared with his mother in the 1300 block of West Avenue J-2, deputies said. They said they served a search warrant Tuesday afternoon following a large number of complaints from neighbors about narcotics activity. Among the items found in the apartment were a Mac 12 semiautomatic carbine carbine Light, short-barreled rifle. The first carbines, from the muzzle-loading muskets of the 18th century to the lever-action repeaters of the 19th, were chiefly cavalry weapons or saddle firearms for mounted frontiersmen. with a kit to convert it into an illegal submachine gun, the Thompson equipped with a drum magazine drum magazine n. A cylindrical container for feeding cartridges into the firing chamber of a submachine gun or light machine gun. , and a silencer, also illegal. Deputies said they also found three hand-held citizens band radios, two high-power two-way radios, computer equipment, three video surveillance cameras, a bicycle, a paint-ball gun and a police scanner set to local sheriff's frequencies. Officials said some of the radios are believed to have been taken during recent burglaries at an area school. The video cameras are believed to have been stolen from Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Hospital and a local Hometown Buffet HomeTown Buffet is a buffet-style, sit-down restaurant chain headquartered in Eagan, Minnesota with locations throughout the United States. Its wide selection of food include pizza, hot dogs, hot wings, sliced ham among many others. restaurant. A half-ounce of methamphetamine and a half-ounce of cocaine also were found in the apartment, plus $1,500 cash, deputies said. Nicknamed ``Skoal skoal interj. Used as a drinking toast. [Danish and Norwegian skaal, cup, skoal, from Old Norse sk ,'' Voshall was given the merchandise in trade for drugs and his services as a tattoo artist, deputies said. Working out of a tattoo studio set up in the apartment, he specialized in swastikas and lightning bolts - both white supremacist symbols, deputies said. Officials said they knew Voshall from a 1995 stabbing. They said he was stabbed in an attempt to prevent him from testifying on a gang-related shooting, which he witnessed. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO (color) Deputy Brian Schoonmaker holds a Thompson submachine gun, displayed with other arms seized from a Lancaster apartment. Jeff Goldwater/Daily News |
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