SALISBURY, Md. -- A former Ocean City police officer and
candidate for Worcester County Sheriff has been charged with illegally selling
an AK-47.
Maryland State Police say David Catrino also provided an
unidentified buyer with four loaded 30-round magazines for the weapon last
month and paperwork was never filed.
Wicomico County Sheriff Mike Lewis says the gun was sold in
the parking lot of Sherwood Ford in Salisbury, where the 45-year-old West Ocean
City resident was employed as a salesman. Lewis calls it "a very reckless
act."
Catrino was charged this week with unlawful sale or transfer
of a regulated firearm and four counts of assault weapons violations and was
released on bond.
Catrino worked as an Ocean City police officer from 1994 to
2007. He ran unsuccessfully for sheriff in 2010.