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PUBLISHED 5/21/08 ---- The theft of 20 guns from the Kern County Sheriff’s Department property room by a part-time employee demands a hard look at the Sheriff’s policies, procedures and available technology related to security. Sheriff Donny Youngblood is justifiably furious and mortified that an “extra help” employee, 18-year-old Edgard Luis Nava, has been taken into custody in the wake of revelations that 20 handguns have disappeared from storage over the past six weeks. The Sheriff’s Department learned of the apparent breach only after the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department arrested a Kern County man May 14 for possession of a concealed weapon — a handgun that was traced back to the Kern County Sheriff’s Department as having been previously confiscated. Talk about embarrassing. What’s an 18-year-old man, hired off the street, doing with ongoing access to seized guns? Should “temps” has access to...
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