Affidavit for Search Warrant PDF
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Added on 2019-11-14
Affidavit for Search Warrant PDF
Added on 2019-11-14
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AFFIDAVIT FOR A WARRANT TO SEARCH AND SEIZEIntroduction and Agent BackgroundI, Fahaad Alzaabi, being duly sworn in, depose and state the following:I am an investigator in the Criminal Investigators Division, United States (U.S.)Department of State, Virginia since June 30th, 2009 and have served as a generalinvestigator and a narcotics investigator in the ATF and Virginia State Police TaskForces. I have been doing Criminal investigations for the United States, Department ofState, since the commencement of my official duties. I have received comprehensivetraining in different aspects of investigations that are of both criminal and civil innature from the Federal Law Enforcement Training Agency. I have a Masters inForensic Science from Walden University, which has provided me with the capacityto apply the skills I have learnt in investigative analysis and cyber crime.During my tenure as an investigative officer, I have met with a number of suspectswho have been with the possession of fire arms, ammunition and related accessories. Ihave also interrogated a number of investigative officers, witnesses, informants anddefendants in relation to the possession of firearms and ammunition as part of myinvestigative responsibilities. The information listed out in this affidavit comes from the leads given by informants,facts given by other investigative officers, my own observations about the miscreantand my intuitions based on the experiences I had garnered over the years. Based onmy experience and training, I know the following facts about illegal arms possessionand felony:
1.It is fair and acceptable to believe that a person who is dealing with firearmsand ammunition could be storing them at their homes or surrounding premises.2.Possession of firearms would normally be accompanied by fire arm accessoriessuch as bullets, magazines, parts of guns, other ammunition, cartridges,magazines, receipts of the purchase or other documents related to similarpurchases.3.There may be evidence of weapon possession in the form of digital evidencessuch as email correspondence, chat messages, phone calls, digital images andsoft copies of ammunition possession documents.4.Suspects who have already been convicted of fire arms and related cases mayhide weapons inside their homes itself, or within the periphery of their homes,which may cover their backyard, garage, vehicles or other areas within thevicinity of their homes.5.That it is possible for suspects to take photographs of themselves with theirweapons or the weapons alone, or their friends photographs with weapons andstore them in their phones. And that they may decide to share these photos withtheir immediate friends through photo sharing mediums. They may decide tosave these images in their own computers or external devices such as flashdrives or memory cardsThe Virginia State Police are currently investigating the case of Pete Tommy Gunne,DOB 12-09-1980, residing at 4400 University Dr, Fairfax, Virginia, 22030, ENG5358in suspicion of illegal possession and trading of high calibre weapons and their relatedaccessories. The details of the case as per my knowledge have been listed below:
1.Based upon my investigation, expertise, education, judgement and informationexchanges with the confidential informant, who will hereby be referred to asCA-1, I have gained sufficient personal information regarding the ongoinginvestigation. It has been accepted by CA-1 that he has been in regular contactwith an individual name Pete Tommy Gunne, through a mutual contact, whohad been enquiring about the availability of a variety of high calibre firearmsthrough the internet.2.It is highly important that CA-1’s identity has to be undisclosed and consideredanonymous throughout the investigation. If there are any risks of CA-1’sidentity being revealed at present or at a later stage during the ongoinginvestigation, CA-1 or his immediate family members could be in danger thatcould be even life threatening.3.CA-1 has proved to be a legitimate and reliable informant at previous instancesas there have been occasions where the leads that were given by him hadresulted in the execution of search warrants and seizures of arms andammunition and seizure of drugs at a number of previous occasions.4.This affiant had the opportunity to interact with CA-1 during the past sixmonths on a regular basis, to enquire about the whereabouts of Pete TommyGunne, who had been residing at 44oo University Dr, Fairfax, Virginia, 22020,ENG 5358.5.It had been disclosed that Gunne was in touch with CA-1, on many occassionsthrough a mutual contact who has been CA-1’s accomplice for the past fewyears. It is assumed that Gunne was under the presumption that CA-1 had a
number of contacts and secretive information about arms buyers from countrieslike Venuzueal and Argentina in South America.6.Gunne has also contacted CA-1 to have discussions about the different modesof possible identity theft, which CA-1 doubts was for the purchase of highcalibre firearms that mandatorily requires a legitimate identification andgenuine credentials of the buyer.7.It had been observed that Gunne was frequently visited in a black ToyotaCamry by two white males and a black male at his residence on manyoccasions during the past six months. On checking the Registry of MotorVehicles it had been revealed that the Camry was registered under the name ofReece Nielson, who was at a later stage, identified as one of the frequentvisitors to Gunn’s residence.8.A detailed probation check of Reece Nielson revealed that he had a longstanding criminal history and served a time span of 3 years in James RiverCorrectional Centre, Virginia. The crimes that were registered in his name wasmainly for the possession of firearms without proper identification, felony anddrug trafficking.9.The investigation team, on different occasions had been on a close trail withGunn’s movements since Februrary 2016. On the 23rd of June this year,approximately by around 7:40 p.m, it came to the investigator’s notice whowere in the trail of Pete Gunn, that he had arranged a meeting a middle agedwhite male at Villa Mozart, a restaurant at 4009 Chain Bridge Rd, Fairfax, VA22030.
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