A gun once registered to Christopher Dorner — the infamous ex-LA cop who killed four people including two lawyers — was found in an LA Airbnb by a couple who allegedly “crime tourists,say federal prosecutors.
The two South American nationals are accused of stealing a $1 million watch at gunpoint last week on the patio of the Beverly Wilshire hotel.
Did they use Dorner’s gun to commit the alleged crime?
Assistant US Atty. Jena MacCabe would not confirm that the weapon was used in the alleged robbery, KCAL reportedbut an affidavit says it was the only weapon found in connection with the arrests.
“We’re still trying to figure it out,” MacCabe said.
Prosecutors say the suspects held the victim up in front of his wife and twin 5-year-old daughters at the exclusive Beverly Hills hotel. One held a gun while the other took off the man’s luxury watch, a Patek Philippe, and then fled in a car with a stolen license plate, the affidavit states.
Street cameras near Beverly Wilshire captured the Aug. 7 armed robbery of a man in front of his family.
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Jamer Mauricio Sepulveda Salazar, 21, of Colombia, is charged with two felony counts related to the armed robbery. Nineteen-year-old Jesus Eduardo Padron Rojas of Venezuela is charged with aggravated conspiracy to commit robbery.
Sepulveda said the crew had been conducting surveillance for two weeks in an attempt to steal a Patek Phillipe watch, the complaint says, and both men admitted their involvement in stealing a $30,000 Rolex in Beverly Hills two days before the $1 million theft.
Investigators found a gun in Padron’s pillow case at the suspects’ Airbnb on Browning Boulevard in Los Angeles. The weapon was registered to Dorner, a former officer who targeted LAPD officers he believed had wronged him.
Over nine days in 2013Dorner killed four people — two police officers, the daughter of a former LAPD captain and her fiance — and injured three others. He died in a cabin in Big Bear that went up in flames after a shootout with authorities.
MacCabe said investigators were “trying to figure out how this gun from so long ago somehow came into their possession and became tied up in this violent armed robbery spree.”