A conservative sheriff overseeing Maryland’s largest county, who was indicted on federal charges last week for allegedly defrauding regulators to obtain machine guns, has long-running ties to right-wing and anti-immigration causes, according to a report from the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Charles “Chuck” Austin Jenkins, the sheriff of Frederick County, Maryland, was charged on Wednesday with submitting false paperwork to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms on behalf of a local gun dealer claiming to be acquiring machine guns to demonstrate to law enforcement.
