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Pasadena Police Lieutenant Indicted on Charges of Illegally Selling Around 100 Firearms Officially Resigns

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Pasadena Police Department. – Courtesy Photo

By Terry Miller

A lieutenant in the Pasadena Police Department who turned himself in recently after being indicted on charges of selling guns without a license has now officially resigned , Lieutenant Jason Clawson, Adjutant to the Chief of Police, told Pasadena Independent in a ‘phone call Tuesday night.

Vasken Kenneth Gourdikian, 48, of Sierra Madre, was named in a four-count federal indictment for allegedly selling guns without a license, making false statements on Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Forms, and possessing an unregistered short-barreled rifle.

Gourdikian, who had been on paid administrative leave with the city of Pasadena since February 2017, resigned effective March 15.

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