Christopher Dorner’s gun turns up in theft of $1 million watch in Beverly Hills, police say

A gun belonging to infamous former Los Angeles Police Officer Christopher Dorner has turned up in an Airbnb utilized by so-called crime vacationers who had been charged on Tuesday within the armed theft of a $1 million watch in Beverly Hills, officers say.

Two South American nationals, who authorities imagine traveled to Southern California to commit crimes, had been charged with robbing a person as he sat on the patio of a restaurant on the Beverly Wilshire Hotel.

During a search of the crew’s Airbnb, officers found a handgun registered to Dorner, recognized for committing a collection of killings earlier than dying in a fiery standoff with police in 2013, in response to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Dorner, who had sought revenge for dropping his job, went on a murderous rampage towards regulation enforcement and killed 4 individuals earlier than taking his personal life.

It was not instantly recognized the place the suspects within the Beverly Hills case could have gotten Dorner’s gun.

Jamer Mauricio Sepulveda Salazar, 21, of Columbia, is charged with one rely of interference with commerce by theft — often called a federal Hobbs Act crime — and one rely of possessing a firearm in furtherance of against the law of violence; and Jesus Eduardo Padron Rojas, 19, of Venezuela, is charged with one rely of conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act theft.

According to the criticism affidavit, on Aug. 7, the sufferer was sitting together with his spouse and two daughters on the restaurant patio  when one of many suspects allegedly approached and pointed a black semi-automatic handgun at him.

The alleged gunman reportedly pulled again the slide of the handgun, chambering a spherical. While the primary suspect held the sufferer at gunpoint, the second suspect allegedly approached and eliminated a silver Patek Philippe watch, which is estimated to be value $1 million, from the sufferer’s wrist.

Both suspects then fled the scene and finally entered a blue Toyota Corolla, with Sepulveda allegedly serving because the getaway driver, in response to courtroom papers.

On Saturday, regulation enforcement executed a search warrant at an Airbnb the place the South American theft group had allegedly been staying. During the search, officers discovered a handgun in a bed room that was registered to Dorner. Later that day, regulation enforcement carried out a visitors cease on a Chevrolet Equinox and reportedly recognized Sepulveda and Padron contained in the car.

The Equinox was allegedly linked to a different armed theft in Beverly Hills on Aug. 5, throughout which a $30,000 Rolex was stolen, prosecutors stated.

If convicted on all counts, Sepulveda faces a sentence of as much as life in federal jail, whereas Padron faces as much as 20 years, in response to prosecutors.

Federal, state and native regulation enforcement businesses all through Southern California say brazen criminals from South America have been utilizing journey visas to enter the U.S. to steal cash, jewellery and different gadgets at houses and companies.