California | August 26, 2021
Torrance police find 300 unopened recall ballots, with gun, drugs and mail, in sleeping man’s car
California | August 26, 2021
Authorities are investigating why 300 unopened vote-by-mail ballots for the upcoming recall election were found – along with a gun, drugs and stolen mail – in a car parked at a Torrance convenience store.
The discovery was made Aug. 16 when Torrance police were called around 10:45 p.m. about a man sleeping in his car at a 7-Eleven parking lot.
“Inside the vehicle, the officers found a loaded handgun, some narcotics, and then they found a bunch of mail and what turned out to be over 300 election ballots in the backseat of the vehicle,” said Sgt. Mark Ponegalek with the Torrance Police Department.
“They appeared to be in a box, but they were also kind of strewn across the backseat of the vehicle and so there was just a large portion of mail in that backseat.”
Police say the man was a felon. The drugs found included Xanax pills and methamphetamine. Police say they also found multiple California driver’s licenses and credit cards in the names of other people…. (Excerpts from ABC 7)