Police Seeking Probation Violator Find Drugs, Guns at House

Law-enforcement officials found a little more than they expected when they descended on a quiet suburban street Thursday looking for a probation violator.

Police discovered about five dozen firearms, including assault weapons, along with white-supremacist paraphernalia and about $10,000 worth of methamphetamines, said Orange County Sheriff’s Lt. Ron Wilkerson.

Police arrested Jeffrey Stuart Martin, 21; his mother, Kathleen Ezakovich; his stepfather, Charles Ezakovich; and Greg James Hallahan, 28, of Orange, a parolee at large, on suspicion of possessing illegal firearms and illegal narcotics with intent to sell.

Investigators from the county marshal’s office, assisted by county sheriff’s deputies, went to a house on Broken Hill Court to arrest Martin on probation violations. When they knocked, Wilkerson said, they heard people running inside. After breaking down the door, they found Martin hiding in the attic and Hallahan in another room, he said.

Wilkerson said police also found a flag with a swastika, a picture of Adolf Hitler and white-supremacist literature, as well as about five ounces of methamphetamine and seven weapons, including shotguns, rifles and a handgun.

A short time later, Kathleen Ezakovich, who turned 48 Thursday, came home. She was arrested after additional drugs were found in the bedroom she shares with her husband, Wilkerson said.

When Charles Ezakovich returned home, he at first refused to open two safes in the master bedroom, then consented after a search warrant was obtained. Inside, investigators discovered an Uzi and a “Streetsweeper” assault weapon, rifles with scopes and handguns, Wilkerson said.

Neighbors said they feared the Ezakoviches were simply caught up in the dealings of the son, Martin, who one neighbor said has a Confederate flag hanging in his bedroom window and a swastika tattoo.

“It looks worse than it is,” said Nancy Letarte, a next-door neighbor who described herself as a close friend of the mother. She described Charles Ezakovich as an ex-Marine and a gun collector and said the weapons in the safes were part of his collection.

Neither, she said, have been involved in drugs.

Hallahan also has prior convictions, for drug possession and evading a police officer and causing injury, according to Orange County court records. He was also arrested Thursday on a parole violation.

Each was being held in Orange County Jail on $25,000 bail. They were to be arraigned Friday in Orange County Municipal Court in Fullerton.