Now 51-year-old
Brent Nicholson is behind bars on charges of possession of stolen
property. And authorities are sifting through between 8,000 and 10,000
guns, trying to determine where they came from, Chesterfield County
Sheriff's Capt. Daniel Scott said.
There
were so many guns inside the home and in a storage building nearby that
investigators stopped counting after a while, Chesterfield County
Sheriff Jay Brooks told The Charlotte Observer.
There were so many guns that they filled multiple tractor trailers with items they seized in the raid.
And there were so many guns, Brooks said, that top law enforcement officials from the area had never seen such a big stash.
The raid began Friday and continued over the weekend, CNN affiliates
reported. Nicholson was arrested in Union County, North Carolina, on
Saturday, and is being held in the Chesterfield County Detention Center
in South Carolina. His family did not immediately respond to a request
for comment and it was not immediately clear whether he had obtained
legal representation.
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Brooks told WBTV that the case against Nicholson is still in the works, and he could make his first court appearance at a bond hearing later this week.
"He
was hoarding most of it, but it's all stolen material from all over
numerous counties and it's going to take a lot to sort all this out,"
Brooks told CNN affiliate WSOC.
Guns
weren't the only thing hidden inside the home, according to
investigators. They also found 150 chainsaws and numerous taxidermy
supplies among what Brooks described to WBTV as a "menagerie" of stolen
property. The value of items seized from the home could total $1
million, Scott said.
"People would steal anything and bring it to him," Brooks told WBTV, "and they knew he would pay them cash for it."
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