PEBBLE BEACH – After looking a Pebble Seaside house final week as a part of a sexual assault investigation, Monterey County Sheriff’s detectives in the end discovered and seized 1000's of rounds of ammunition and dozens of weapons.
On Thursday, deputies served a search warrant issued for the Shepard’s Knoll residence of 56-year-old Michael Abbott. The search yielded over 80 firearms, greater than 50,000 rounds of ammunition, and a whole lot of magazines for numerous firearms, based on the Sheriff’s Workplace. Abbott is a earlier gun store proprietor, Sheriff’s Workplace spokesman Derrel Simpson added.
Deputies seized the firearms upon discovery as a result of Abbott having an habit to prescription narcotics, in addition to a restraining order filed towards him on this case. Each rendered Abbott’s possession and possession of firearms or ammunition prohibited.
Abbott was arrested and brought into custody with out incident. On Sunday, he was booked into Monterey County Jail on prices of felon in possession of a firearm and possession of ammunition by a prohibited particular person. Different prices filed – together with oral copulation of a minor below 18, illegal intercourse with a minor, and sexual penetration by a overseas object with power – are in connection to a sexual assault investigation that had initially prompted the search of Abbott’s house.
In November 2021, a 17-year-old approached the Sheriff’s Workplace to report against the law allegedly involving Abbott. Based on the Sheriff’s Workplace, the sufferer met Abbott on a social media website. Abbott then allegedly coerced the sufferer right into a sexual relationship, which moved detectives to provoke an investigation.
Abbott is at present being held on the Monterey County Jail. His bail has been set at $1.5 million.