Thread: Boys Find Loaded AK-47 Rifle Near Mobile Home Park

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John Overall Reports

Boys find loaded AK-47 rifle near mobile home park

Feb 1, 2007 09:36 AM EST



The boys found the assault weapon about 20 yards from a tree house they are building in the desert next to their home.


The Santa Cruz Sheriff's Department is testing an AK-47 rifle for ballistics after the rifle was found last week by three boys at the Mountain View Mobile Home Park in Amado.

Authorities believe it could be the same weapon used to kill two drug smugglers in the Tubac Hills about 10 miles from the mobile home park.

The boys found the assault weapon about 20 yards from a tree house they are building in the desert next to their home.

Todd Neimier, father of one of the boys told News 4 that his son and two friends found the rifle stashed in the bushes.

"It was fully loaded. It was ready to go" he said.

Esther Geisman, who owns the trailer park, said that she worried about the kids who live in the area.

"These 11-year-old kids are finding this -- we're in a war zone," she said.

Bill Geisman, the park's maintenance manager, patrols the grounds with a gun on his hip.

He says guns and drugs are creeping into the area at a rapid rate.

Just one month ago, he and Border Patrol agents found 250 pounds of marijuana, two loaded AK-47's, a 9-millimeter hand gun and four illegal immigrants just 200 yards from his property.

"Right there along with them were 400 or 500 rounds of military grade body-armor-piercing ammunition" he said.

Geisman hates to think about what could have happened if the boys hadn't called an adult after finding the loaded assault weapon.

Geisman said, "Touch that trigger and it would have gone off. Any one of them could have been seriously injured or killed."

Lt. Raul Rodriguez of the Santa Cruz Sheriff's Department says the boys did everything right.

"What the kids did was very, very bright and good of them to notify their parents as soon as they found it," Rodruguez said.

Esther Geisman agrees. She's thankful that nobody was hurt but she's also worried about the drug smugglers and illegal immigrants who are leaving behind dangerous drugs and weapons on her property.

She's been in Arizona for 12 years but now she's thinking about leaving.

"If I didn't own this property and owe money, I'd be gone," Geisman said.

Bill Geisman says this situation only exposes how vulnerable America is today.

Geisman wonders, "If we have drug smugglers carrying AK-47's with military-grade ammunition, what else is coming across the border?"

Geisman wonders, "If we have drug smugglers carrying AK-47's with military-grade ammunition, what else is coming across the border?"

What indeed.

If these people in AZ are so upset enough to want to move out, why then, do they keep electing McCain as their Senator, when he is so pro-illegal immigrant?