LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer who had more than 250 guns in his Santa Fe Springs home when it was raided earlier this year pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal gun trafficking and tax evasion charges.
Wei Xu, 56, plead guilty to one count each of unlawfully engaging in the business of dealing in firearms, unlawfully possessing unregistered firearms, making materially false statements to a federal agency and tax evasion.
Xu, who worked as a watch commander at Long Beach Seaport, remains in custody. On Feb. 5, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) agents raided Xu’s home, where they found more than 250 weapons, including 41 machine guns and two short-barreled rifles. None of the weapons were registered with ATF.
Going back to the late 1990s, Xu sold more than 99 weapons without a federal license, federal prosecutors say.