Mother, son plead not guilty to stolen firearms

Published 10:44 am Friday, November 1, 2013

Two suspects accused of having stolen firearms pleaded not guilty Thursday in Mower County Court.

Huinker

Huinker

Shannon Marie Huinker, 41, pleaded not guilty to felonies for possession of stolen property and fifth-degree drug possession, along with a gross misdemeanor for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Huinker’s son, Jacob Scott Farnsworth, 21, also pleaded not guilty to felony possession of stolen property.

According to the court complaint, a resident in Marshall Township reported three revolvers — a .357-caliber, .44-caliber and .45-caliber — all as stolen.

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On Oct. 18, after executing a search warrant for drugs at Huinker’s home in the 900 block of Fifth St. NW, Austin, authorities reportedly found the stolen firearms. They arrested Huinker and Farnsworth and reportedly found another person in the home with 10.65 grams of marijuana. The court complaint added nobody confessed to stealing the guns.

Farnsworth

Farnsworth

Huinker was convicted of theft by swindle in September 2012, sentenced to five years’ supervised probation and ordered to pay restitution to Walmart. In that case, Huinker and others went to Walmart several times in 2012, took hundreds of dollars of items from within the store and returned them for cash. A loss prevention employee eventually caught onto the scheme.