Man arrested in stolen gun case

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Friday, Sept. 5, 2003 | 11:07 a.m.

Members of Metro Police's repeat offender program arrested a man Thursday on suspicion of trying to sell an undercover detective stolen guns, Lt. Jim Moses said.

Acting on a tip, detectives said they watched Michael Fitzgerald, a felon, enter a gated community in southwest Las Vegas and steal a bicycle and tools out of a garage, Moses said.

Detectives followed him to North Rancho Drive, where investigators later found several thousand dollars worth of power tools and bikes believed to have been stolen by Fitzgerald, Moses said.

An undercover operation was set up, and a detective met Fitzgerald in the parking lot at Charleston and Rainbow boulevards, where he sold the officer three guns believed to be stolen.