By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com
Federal authorities are searching for a “substantial” number of firearms and gun parts stolen from a government disposal facility in Martinsburg, W.Va., USA Today reports.
Christopher Yates, a security contractor assigned to the ATFÂ repository in West Virginia, has been charged in connection with the missing weapons and parts.
Yates has allegedly acknowledged transferring at least some of the stolen property to an unidentified person Maryland.
