KC man charged for illegal firearm possession by federal agents in Operation LeGend
A 26-year-old man was charged for illegal possession of a firearm as part of Operation LeGend, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Western District of Missouri announced Friday.
Gary Dorch, of Kansas City, is accused of possessing a Glock .40 caliber pistol in a rental car he was returning on Monday.
The gun was noticed, the release said, when federal agents attempted to arrest him on a warrant for violating the terms of his supervised release from prison.
Ammunition, prosecutors allege, was found in the car Dorch’s girlfriend was returning to the rental agency.
Dorch was previously convicted in relation to a 2013 armed robbery, the release said. It is illegal for someone convicted of a felony to posses a firearm or ammunition.
Operation LeGend, bringing more than 225 additional federal agents to the Kansas City region, is named after 4-year-old LeGend Taliferro, who was fatally shot while sleeping last month.
The operation, announced earlier this month by Attorney General William Barr, is intended to curb violent crime as 2020 is on track to be the most violent in the city’s history.
The U. S. Attorney’s office for the Western District of Missouri announced Friday afternoon that 97 arrests have been made in the operation, including five related to homicides. Details on all of those arrests have not been released.
This story was originally published July 31, 2020 at 4:24 PM.
