Sacramento police find 9 ghost guns in warrant search; SWAT officer shoots, kills dog
Sacramento police arrested a suspect after recovering multiple “ghost guns,” and a SWAT officer fatally shot a dog that bit an officer, in the course of serving a search warrant Tuesday, authorities said.
Gang enforcement and SWAT officers served the warrant at a home in the 600 block of Las Palmas Avenue in the Noralto neighborhood of North Sacramento, the Sacramento Police Department announced in social media posts.
“While SWAT Officers were accessing the yard of the residence, an aggressive dog attacked and bit one of our officers which caused minor injury,” police said. “A SWAT officer discharge(d) their weapon at the aggressive dog, which later passed away.”
After the scene was stabilized from the dog incident, officers searched the home and located at least 16 guns, nine of which were “ghost guns,” illegal and privately manufactured firearms, police said.
Officers found two AR-15 style rifles, a “MAC style assault weapon,” 13 handguns and five body armor carriers, along with machines and equipment associated with manufacturing ghost guns such as drill presses, according to the post.
One of the guns was configured to fire automatically, police said.
Police arrested Kianti Gix, 33, on suspicion of numerous firearms charges. He was booked into the Sacramento County Main Jail downtown and faces 22 counts of firearm possession by a felon; five counts of possessing an assault weapon; five counts of manufacturing an assault weapon; and one charge each of possession of ammunition or firearms by a prohibited person, possession of body armor by a felon, and possession of a machine gun, jail records show. All 35 listed charges are felonies.
Gix is ineligible for bail and due in Sacramento Superior Court on Thursday.
“The Sacramento Police Department remains committed to the continued removal of illegal firearms from the streets of Sacramento,” the department tweeted Wednesday morning.
