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The attorney for Thomas George Stanko questioned in federal court Tuesday the reliability of a witness and police interpretation of jailhouse phone calls that led state troopers to find 17 guns on his Unity property and in a storage unit.
Attorney Komron Jon Maknoon said investigators may have misrepresented what 50-year-old Stanko, who has been linked to the disappearance of former Unity resident Cassandra Gross, said in the calls to get two search warrants approved by a judge in 2018.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Cindy Chung countered that troopers had “ample probable cause” to believe the calls were coded discussions about guns at a Unity property he owns.