St. Tammany Deputies Seize Guns, Drugs, 4 NOLA Residents Charged

A routine traffic stop near Oak Harbor and I-10 turned into quite the felony bust Tuesday night for St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office when they pulled over a red Nissan Versa containing four individuals and a trove of illegal items. According to a Facebook post by the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office, detectives with their Proactive Enforcement Unit and Narcotics Division discovered four illegal firearms inside the vehicle, one of which, a Glock 19, had been reported stolen out of Jefferson Parish.

The cache recovered from the vehicle did not stop at firearms. The St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office detail also found a .223 style pistol modified to function as an automatic weapon, marijuana, a device for cloning automotive smart keys complete with remote fobs, and transponder chips. Items associated with burglary such as ski masks, gloves, goggles, and a window punch were also among the seized articles signifying that, these items were not gathered haphazardly but with intention…

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