This is the second criminal file in Kamloops this year involving allegations of weapons made with 3D printers
A 31-year-old Kamloops man has been accused of using a 3D printer to make guns at his Heffley Creek home.
British Columbia’s anti-gang agency, the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit (CFSEU), said criminal charges have been approved against Adrian Picketts-Yoxall but he remains at large.
Police say they discovered a stash of homemade weapons at Picketts-Yoxall’s home while executing a search warrant in January 2022. Police say they also discovered a 3D printer that Picketts-Yoxall allegedly used to build the weapons, as well as ammunition, magazines and body armor.
Picketts-Yoxall, 31, is charged with two counts of manufacturing firearms, as well as possession of a prohibited weapon, unsafe storage of a firearm, possession of a firearm contrary to a previous order against him and unauthorized possession of an unrestricted firearm.
CFSEU is asking anyone who knows Picketts-Yoxall’s whereabouts to contact police.
In December 2021, the CFSEU-BC received information that led it to open an investigation into the manufacture of privately manufactured firearms in the Thompson-Okanagan region.
On January 28, 2022, a man was arrested and an arrest warrant was issued
Executed at his home in Heffley Creek, items confiscated included a tactical shotgun, ammunition and magazines, a 3D printer for making firearms, three receivers printed with the aforementioned 3D printer, and body armor.
On October 10, the Crown approved charges against Picketts-
Yoxall.
CFSEU-BC, Kamloops RCMP and the Canadian Border Services Agency were involved in the investigation.
This is the second criminal file in Kamloops this year involving allegations of weapons made with 3D printers.
One of the weapons seized by Kamloops Mounties during a raid on a home in Batchelor Heights on May 3 was a 3D printed firearm.
Members of the department’s targeted enforcement unit executed a search warrant at a home on Stagecoach Drive and seized three kilograms of fentanyl, the drug linked to the vast majority of the more than 11,000 overdose deaths in British Columbia
In addition to the fentanyl, police seized a kilogram of cocaine, 550 grams of methamphetamine, two Tasers, tens of thousands of dollars in cash, two vehicles and three firearms, including a 3D printed gun.
