Pinkberry Co-founder / P.O.S. Young Lee could face additional felony charge over illegal handguns

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Nice bowtie, you fucking douchebag.

Pinkberry Co-Founder
Illegal HEAT Revealed
in Beating Investigation

http://www.tmz.com/2012/02/16/pinkberry-co-founder-young-lee-search-warrant/#.Tz3QveVhBws



TMZ has obtained the search warrant affidavit filed by a detective in LAPD's Asian Crime Unit -- and it reveals two handguns registered in Lee's name: a Colt .45, and a Para Ordnance brand .45.

The handguns are a major no-no because ... according to the docs Lee is not supposed to "own, buy, receive, possess, or have custody or control of any firearms" -- due to a 2001 felony conviction for possession of narcotics.

Lee was arrested last month and booked for assault in the brutal tire iron beating of a homeless man on the off-ramp of a Los Angeles freeway.

It's unclear whether police found the handguns during a search of Lee's home and high-end cars -- 2009 Rolls-Royce Phantom, 2007 Ferrari 599 GTB, and a 2010 Mercedes G Wagon -- but if so, he could face an additional felony charge.

[thelordofhell]

1. And he already has his prison nickname

Enjoy your stay scumbag

[TheWraith]

2. Back up--he has a felony conviction, and REGISTERED firearms?

It didn't occur to anyone that a felon possessing a firearm is, in itself, another felony?

Either 1) he had those firearms registered when he was previously convicted, in which case they should have been found and forfeited. Or 2) he registered them AFTER he was convicted, in which case no one checking the registration data bothered to notice that he was a FELON. The latter of which would also imply that he involved someone else in a straw purchase of said firearms, since a felony conviction is one of the major conditions to fail an NICS background check for a firearms purchase--which is yet another felony count for both him and the straw buyer.

Yeah, that just fills me with confidence in the California state firearm registry.