A witness’ tip led to the arrest of two people and the seizure in Castaic of a cache of pellet guns altered to look like real firearms, authorities said Friday.
Deputies were called about 5 p.m. Thursday to a restaurant parking lot in the 27700 block of Lake Hughes Road, where the witness reported seeing a man putting a rifle in the back seat of a vehicle, according to Shirley Miller, public information officer at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Santa Clarita Valley Station.
“Arriving deputies detained two adults that were seated in the vehicle,” in which numerous air soft rifles and handguns were found, Miller said.
“At least seven of the assault-style rifles had been altered, and appeared real, with safety tips removed,” Miller said. “Deputies also located narcotics and several pieces of stolen mail in the vehicle.”
The suspects, a man and woman in their 20s, were arrested on suspicion of altering imitation firearms, mail theft, possession of narcotics and possession of narcotics paraphernalia, Miller said.
The suspects’ names were not immediately released.
–City News Service