A federal indictment accuses Sheriff Charles Austin Jenkins in Maryland of requesting the machine guns and then funneling them to a private business.
Jenkins, who was first elected to the Maryland county in 2006 and reelected last year, was charged with conspiracy and making false statements along with Robert Justin Krop, the owner of firearms-related businesses in Frederick, prosecutors announced Wednesday.
Prosecutors say Jenkins, 66, and Krop, 36, coordinated to “unlawfully purchase machineguns and falsified multiple documents on the Frederick County Sheriff’s Office letterhead requesting machineguns for evaluation and demonstration to the Frederick County Sheriff’s Office.” The guns, however, were not used at the sheriff’s office for demonstrations and instead were rented out to Krop’s customers, prosecutors with the U.S. attorney’s office in Maryland allege. The indictment also accuses Krop of illegally possessing seven machine guns.
“Krop’s business offered political support to Jenkins in recognition of his support for the business,” prosecutors said in a statement announcing the indictment.
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