Man steals more than 40 firearms from vehicle parked at Las Vegas hotel: police

Yahoo

31-01-2025

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A man accused of stealing more than 40 firearms from a pickup truck parked at a hotel in Las Vegas faces more than 90 charges, documents said.
On Jan. 25, a man called the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department to report his pickup truck was broken into in the Westgate Hotel parking garage. He said his truck was carrying approximately 80 firearms and roughly 40 of them were missing, documents said.
The man told police he parked in the garage on Jan. 23 and came back on Jan 25., noticing a window was smashed and several firearms missing.
The arrest report said there were 46 firearms stolen.
He said he worked for a gun auction company based in Wyoming and had recently picked up the firearms in California, bringing them to Las Vegas. He said he was in town for the SHOT Show, which stands for Shooting, Hunting, and Outdoor Trade Show, the report stated.
The SHOT show was held from Jan. 21-24 in Las Vegas this year.
Surveillance footage from the garage showed a man, later identified as Francisco Iniguez, 37, 'acting suspicious.' In the footage, Iniguez was checking door handles on vehicles in the garage, according to his arrest report.
Iniguez approached the victim's truck before going back to his vehicle with two black bags, the footage showed. He then went to his vehicle, which was rented, and drove it over to the victim's truck. Ten minutes later, a maintenance worker appeared to 'spook' Iniguez and he left, the report stated.
Police used social media and a previous Clark County Detention Center booking photo to identify Iniguez.
Detectives later saw Iniguez and a woman at a home putting luggage into a vehicle that a records check showed was stolen, according to the report. Police conducted a vehicle stop in a restaurant parking lot and took Iniguez into custody.
During an interview with police, Iniguez said the guns were in his house and provided his address, specifically saying police could find them in his upstairs rooms. He also told police he saw the keys in a vehicle at a Strip casino and stole it, the report stated.
Iniguez also told police there was fentanyl in a backpack in the vehicle and under his bed, adding that he was a 'habitual user' and 'steals stuff to support his habit,' according to the report.
In his home, police found 43 guns — but only 35 belonged to the victim at the Westgate, they said.
Iniguez faces the following charges:
47 counts of grand larceny of a firearm
47 counts of prohibited person in possession of a firearm
one count of burglary of a motor vehicle
He was held at the Clark County Detention Center on a $708,000 bail. His next court appearance was scheduled for Feb. 3.
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