A teenager who looked after a '100 year old gun' for 'Premier League' criminals has been jailed. Leon Reinertsen's DNA was found on a revolver discovered when police raided a house in Salford.
The gun, later tested and found to be working order, was found hidden in a loose panel in the kitchen of a property on Clivia Grove in Higher Broughton.
The house belonged to a woman who Reinertsen was involved with in a 'relationship of some nature', Manchester Crown Court heard.
The weapon was found with three modified blank cartridges. During the search police also discovered 100 wraps of heroin and crack cocaine, prosecutor Ian Whitehurst said. READ MORE: Join the FREE Manchester Evening News WhatsApp community Reinertsen, of Barton Lane, Eccles, who was 18 at the time of the raid in April 2021, was not charged with any drugs offences.
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