Weapons Seized From Kissimmee Flea Market

KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Tempers flared as detectives seized some bizarre weapons, which are illegal to sell, at a Kissimmee flea market Tuesday and it was all because WFTV reporter Eric Rasmussen first exposed the illegal sales last month.

It was information from WFTV’s last report that convinced investigators to get two search warrants to go looking for more illegal weapons and they didn’t leave empty-handed.”I’m Sgt. Fisher with the Osceola County Sheriff’s Department. We’re here to serve a search warrant on your booth,” Mohammed Ibrahim was told as deputies arrived Tuesday.

In two teams, members of the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office simultaneously moved in on two booths at the Main Gate Flea Market in Kissimmee (see map). They’re the same two locations where an Eyewitness News hidden camera caught vendors illegally-selling brass knuckles last month.

Tuesday, detectives found a more-troubling version of the old weapons, nine sets in all of metallic knuckles with six to eight-inch knives attached. The same man, who promised to take the brass knuckles off of his shelves when Eyewitness News confronted him in May, was behind the booth.The other owner, Ibrahim, tried to claim he was set up.”Somebody send you to me?” Ibrahim asked Rasmussen.”You’re not the only booth we visited, sir,” Rasmussen told him.”No, no, somebody sent you to me. No way! Somebody send you to me. I know!” he exclaimed.The men were not arrested, because the charges are misdemeanors, but they could still face up to 60 days in jail.The sheriff’s office says it wanted to send a message to vendors at a place that seems to have become a hot spot for illegal weapons.”We have been out here before and, hopefully, after this, we won’t have to come back here again,” said Twis Lizasuain, Osceola County Sheriff’s Office.Eyewitness News tried to reach managers at the flea market to see if they knew anything about what the two vendors were selling, but haven’t heard back. The weapons can be big business; In 2006, customs seized 14,000 brass knuckles flown into Orlando International Airport.

Source (article): WFTV

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