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| Subject: Busted: Pasadena poLICE lieutenant indicted on charges of illegally selling around 100 firearms Sat Mar 03, 2018 11:58 pm | |
| A lieutenant in the Pasadena Police Department turned himself in Friday after being indicted on charges of selling guns without a license.
Vasken Kenneth Gourdikian, 48, of Sierra Madre, was named in a four-count federal indictment for allegedly selling guns without a license, making false statements on Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Forms, and possessing an unregistered short-barreled rifle.
Gourdikian, who had been on paid administrative leave with the city of Pasadena since February 2017, will now be notified and placed on leave without pay, according to the Pasadena Police Department.
The federal indictment alleges that Gourdikian sold over 100 guns without a license from March 2014 through February 2017 and that he used his status as a police officer to purchase guns not available to the general public.
He then sold the "off-roster" weapons through third parties, the indictment said. As a police officer, Gourdikian was also able to purchase more than one handgun in a 30-day period, the statement said. He was also allowed him to take possession of a gun before the usual 10-day waiting period.
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