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Investigators has been left stunned when they discovered about
10,000 guns hidden inside the home of 51-year-old man identified as
Brent Nicholson who is now behind bars on charges of possession of
stolen property.
He was arrested in Union County, North Carolina, on Saturday, and
is being held in the Chesterfield County Detention Center in South
Carolina.
It started with a tip to authorities and ended with a raid at the
South Carolina home on Friday which lasted all through the weekend,
where investigators found thousands of weapons stashed inside.
Chesterfield County Sheriff’s Capt. Daniel Scott said, they are
sifting through between 8,000 and 10,000 guns, trying to determine where
they all came from.
51-year-old Brent Nicholson
Chesterfield County Sheriff, Jay Brooks told The Charlotte Observer,
"There were so many guns inside the home and in a storage building nearby that investigators stopped counting after a while.
There were so many guns that they filled multiple tractor
trailers with items they seized in the raid. And there were so many guns
that top law enforcement officials from the area had never seen such a
big stash.
None of us have ever seen anything anywhere close to this. 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.