Police: Man forces relative, 11, to steal handgun

Holt is barred from possessing firearms due to a prior felony domestic violence conviction.

He’s pleaded not guilty to the current charges and is due back in court next month.

On Dec. 7, Todd Stone, owner of Prepper Up in Prineville, called police to report that a child accompanied by an adult had stolen a Glock handgun from his store.

Stone played surveillance footage for a responding officer that showed a man and a boy walking throughout the store and lingering near a hard-plastic firearm display case. When the employees weren’t looking, the boy allegedly lifted the case lid, took out a pistol and stuffed it in the front of his waistband.

The two were standing about 2 feet apart at the time and when the boy was done, he looked up at the man, wrote Prineville Police officer Daniel Pelayo in a court document.

The pistol is a 9 mm G45 model with a gold-plated barrel valued at $660.

Employees reported that after the boy took the handgun, he told the man repeatedly they needed to leave the store, which they did, court records state. Pelayo ran a license plate number through DMV records and returned Holt’s name and Stone verified Holt’s identity by reviewing a mugshot from a recent arrest. Records indicated Holt had an 11-year-old relative.

That month, police used a drone to establish that the Hyundai that Holt was seen driving was present at his listed address. Police arrested him on the property.

In 2010, he was convicted of child neglect and ordered to attend parenting classes, among other penalties.