DENVER—A Colorado Army National Guardsman accused of stealing Army-issued assault rifle silencers has pleaded guilty to possessing an unregistered firearm.
Former Boulder police officer Eric Shunglik Lee pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court in Denver. The Daily Camera reports () Lee told a judge he had found a box of silencers mistakenly thrown in a dump while serving in Iraq several years ago and never got around to turning them in.
His status with the Guard is under review.
Lee was accused of stealing two silencers and giving them to fellow guardsman Matthew Colin Laflin, who is awaiting trial on charges that he sold the silencers to someone who ended up being an informant working with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
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Information from: Daily Camera,
