Police seize 3D-printed weapons from Beresford Avenue home
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A man is facing 10 weapons charges after police seized 3D-printed items, including an imitation missile launcher and fake machine guns, from a Lord Roberts home.
The Winnipeg Police Service began an investigation earlier this month into a man believed to be manufacturing weapons.
Officers, with help from the tactical support team and other units, arrested a 40-year-old Winnipeg man at about 8 a.m. Thursday and executed a search warrant for a home on the 400 block of Beresford Avenue.
Investigators uncovered a fully operational 3D-printing workshop within a suite, the WPS said in a news release Friday. They seized 3D-printed items, including a .22-calibre handgun, gun parts, three electrical discharge devices in various states of production and a baton. Police also seized .22-calibre primers and ammunition and several imitation weapons — machine guns, a missile launcher and a pistol.
Jay Jonathan Mike is charged with three counts each of possession of a prohibited or restricted weapon knowing its possession is unauthorized and while contrary to a prohibition order, two counts of weapons trafficking and single counts of possession of a gun knowing its possession is unauthorized, possession of a weapon and failing to comply with a probation order. He was detained in custody.
He was found guilty of three firearms offences, including possession of a weapon for the purpose of trafficking, as well as drug possession and a court-order breach in 2006, records show. He was sentenced to 18 months in custody and two years of probation. He was also banned from owning weapons for 10 years.
He was found guilty of theft under $5,000 in 2009 and given 18 months of probation.
Mike pleaded guilty to criminal harassment in November 2022 and was sentenced to two years of supervised probation and given a 10-year weapons ban.
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