Nevada State Police: NHP traffic stop leads to multiple illegal firearms, marijuana and cash

A 24-year-old Washington State man was arrested Friday on a number of expenses after a site visitors cease led to the seizure of a number of unlawful firearms, 7 kilos of marijuana and money, in response to the Nevada State Police.

Triston Steinman, 24, of Edgewood, Wash., is being held within the Elko County Jail on 38 counts of possession of a firearm by a prohibited particular person, 38 counts of possession or transportation of a firearm with out a serial quantity, 38 counts of manufacture or assemble a firearm with out a serial quantity, one rely of possession of marijuana larger than one ounce and one rely of possession of marijuana with intent to promote. His bail is presently listed at $965,000.

At round 3:51 p.m. Friday, Nevada State Police Freeway Patrol Troopers carried out a site visitors cease on a dashing motorist on US-93 at mile marker 56 in Elko County, round 20 miles south of Wells.

The car, a grey BMW sedan, was touring southbound and stopped for touring at 89 miles per hour in a 70-mile-per-hour zone. Upon contact with the motive force, NHP troopers noticed indicators of doable prison exercise, in response to a Nevada State Police information launch.

The troopers took custody of the car with a purpose to search a search warrant to go looking the car. The driving force was launched and voluntarily left the scene. A magistrate later granted the search warrant and a search of the car was carried out.

The search yielded a number of firearms with no serial quantity, a number of firearm muzzle suppressors, a number of weapon elements and equipment, together with manufacturing instruments, magazines, ammunition, roughly 7 kilos of marijuana, drug paraphernalia, and roughly $12,500 money, in response to Nevada State Police.

The Nevada Investigations Division Elko Mixed Narcotics Unit and the Nevada Freeway Patrol, with the help of the Elko County Sheriff’s Division, situated the suspect, and he was taken into custody with out incident, in response to the discharge.

Data has been shared with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, searching for suggestion for doable federal expenses, in response to Nevada State Police. The investigation is presently ongoing.