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A West Virginia man was indicted on Tuesday on federal charges that he sold machine gun conversion devices to hundreds of people, including antigovernment extremists in the Boogaloo movement and the person accused of fatally shooting two law enforcement officers this summer in California, prosecutors said.
The man, Timothy John Watson, 30, of Ranson, W.Va., is accused of selling devices that, when attached to weapons like an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, enable them to automatically fire more than one shot with a single pull of the trigger, prosecutors said.
Mr. Watson sold the devices online, according to prosecutors, and, in order to disguise their nature, described them as “wall hangers” meant to hold “keys, lanyards, hats, jackets, coats and other small items.”
According to a federal criminal complaint, Mr. Watson and his customers used coded language in emails, and messages on social media, indicating the devices were intended to turn weapons into machine guns.
Among Mr. Watson’s customers was Steven Carrillo of Winters, Calif., prosecutors said. Mr. Carrillo purchased a “Portable Wall Hanger — Single” through Mr. Watson’s website in January, they said. In May, the authorities said, Mr. Carrillo shot two security officers outside a federal courthouse in Oakland, killing one of them; in June, the authorities said, he shot two Santa Cruz County sheriff’s deputies, killing one of them.
An AR-15 rifle recovered at the Santa Cruz scene was linked to both shootings, according to federal officials. The weapon appeared “to be a Privately Made Firearm (PMF) with no manufacturer’s markings,” federal officials said in the criminal complaint against Mr. Carrillo.
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