Two males are dealing with legal expenses over the sale of firearms off a automobile dealership lot in Hutto, Texas, about 30 miles northeast of Austin.

Craig Tondre, 42, previously a gross sales supervisor at Covert Ford Hutto, a part of the Texas-based Covert Auto Group, was arrested in April on suspicion of illegally promoting weapons and ammunition. Tondre labored with one other dealership worker, 44-year-old Joshua Ellard, to promote them, based on legal complaints filed April 6 in U.S. District Courtroom for the Western District of Texas. Ellard was additionally arrested that month.

Tondre is charged with dealing firearms and not using a license, whereas Ellard — who was beforehand convicted in Florida of second-degree homicide — is charged as a felon in possession of a firearm and a machine gun.

Tondre and Ellard have been fired “instantly after administration was knowledgeable of their arrests on allegations of promoting unlawful firearms,” Covert Auto Group mentioned in a statement last week to KXAN-TV. The group mentioned administration and homeowners did not learn about any of the alleged actions earlier than the boys’s arrests.

On a number of events, Ellard bought firearms and ammunition to undercover Austin Police Division officers, based on the complaints.

Two completely different Austin detectives on separate events in February and March purchased a silencer, 100 rounds of ammunition and 4 rifles from Ellard, based on the complaints. Earlier than and throughout the transactions, Ellard made feedback about checking with Tondre, his boss, on what was obtainable to promote, the complaints allege.

Tondre wasn’t bodily there for any of the transactions, however officers conducting surveillance noticed him shifting a rifle from his residence to the dealership, based on the complaints.

Ellard allegedly agreed to a purchase order at Tondre’s residence on March 31, and whereas there, a detective noticed a big protected containing about 10 firearms. That transaction is what in the end confirmed Tondre’s involvement and led to his arrest, based on the complaints.

Tondre and Ellard have been launched on bond in mid-April.