Gun dealers want in on stash
Guns found at dead man’s home can’t be sold until histories are traced
Guns found at dead man’s home can’t be sold until histories are traced.
A dead man’s weapons arsenal, discovered inside his Pacific Palisades home, now is drawing the interest of gun dealers.
Harland Braun, who is representing Jeffrey Alan Lash’s fiancee, said he has received calls from gun dealers interested in purchasing some of the roughly 1,500 firearms — most of which of were in mint condition.
But until Los Angeles police trace the weapons’ histories, Braun said, none can be sold.
The 6.5 tons of ammunition recovered from the home probably will be destroyed.
Lash, who suffered from late-stage cancer, died in a Bristol Farms parking lot in Santa Monica on July 4, Braun said.
His fiancee, Catherine Nebron, wasn’t sure what to do and left his body in a vehicle on Palisades Drive before heading to Oregon.
Traveling with her was Dawn VadBunker, who managed several properties owned by Nebron.
VadBunker believed Lash was part human and part alien, her father said. According to David VadBunker, his daughter often talked about Lash, describing him as secretive and saying Lash was “going to save the world.”
Police discovered the body Friday and later found the firearms and ammunition supply inside Nebron’s home.
The private collection, which included machetes and bows and arrows, may be worth $1 million or more, Los Angeles police Capt. William Hayes said.
Investigators also found $230,000 in cash at the home. Hayes said police believe Lash was a collector and did not sell weapons.
Braun said a private investigator was working to locate other military-type items, possibly including an amphibious vehicle, that Lash may have kept in storage lockers.
Mysterious even to those close to him, Lash has not been officially identifed as the dead man by the L.A. County coroner.
Braun said the man had told his fiancee and others that he was working in an undercover capacity for a government agency and was being watched, so she believed that the government would come to collect his body.