Former Visalia Police officer indicted on firearms charges

VISALIA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A erstwhile Visalia Police serviceman was indicted by a national expansive assemblage and charged with conspiracy to postulation firearms and unlawful dealing and manufacturing of firearms without a license, according to the Department of Justice.

According to the DOJ, betwixt 2001 and 2003, 34-year-old Corey Harris of Exeter conspired with different idiosyncratic to postulation successful firearms.

The DOJ says Harris allegedly conspired to transportation astatine slightest 3 firearms connected 3 antithetic occasions to a idiosyncratic helium knew to beryllium a felon. The guns were privately manufactured firearms, besides known arsenic “ghost guns,” including a stolen AK-style rifle, a Glock handgun, and a privately manufactured instrumentality gun.

At the clip of his conviction, the DOJ says Harris was a bid serviceman with the California Department of Cannabis Control.

According to tribunal documents, Harris utilized his presumption arsenic a constabulary serviceman to get firearms and firearms accessories that mean citizens could not purchase. He manufactured oregon directed the manufacture of firearms, including instrumentality guns.

The DOJ says Harris faces a maximum statutory punishment of 15 years successful situation and a $250,000 good if convicted of conspiracy to postulation firearms. If convicted of unlawful dealing and manufacturing of firearms without a license, Harris faces a maximum punishment of 5 years successful situation and a $250,000 fine.