Ghost Gun Discovered During Police Raid at Rochester Home

Rochester, MN (KROC-AM News)- Rochester police discovered a ghost gun following a raid at a Rochester home earlier this week. 

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That’s according to a criminal complaint filed in Olmsted County Court on Thursday. 

The case began as a response to a disorderly call earlier this month and officers returned to the home on Wednesday to execute the search warrant. 

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Officers responded to the disturbance call on April 2 at a home in the 2550 block of Boulder Ridge Dr. Northwest. While at the home, police found a loaded firearm magazine and the upper receiver of a gun, the complaint says. 

Law enforcement returned to the home one week later and found the matching parts of the gun and two additional loaded magazines in a different area of the home, the complaint alleges. 

The part of the gun found during the raid did not have a serial number, according to the court document.

Investigators tied the unassembled so-called “ghost gun” to 21-year-old Thout Nathan Aguek of Rochester, the court document says. 

Court records indicate Aguek was convicted of possession of a firearm without a serial number in a 2023 Olmsted County case and was sentenced to a year probation. He is also awaiting trial after allegedly being busted with a ghost gun last year. 

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Aguek is charged with the same count in the new case. He made his first court appearance Thursday morning, was released without bail and is due back in court next month.