Updated with further details at 4:30 p.m.
A San Bernardino criminal defense attorney was arrested on suspicion of accepting guns and drugs in exchange for his legal services, authorities said.
Gary Stephen Redinger, 59, who once ran for Superior Court judge, was arrested last Wednesday morning after a search of his house turned up suspected methamphetamine and more than 30 firearms, according to San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Deputy Donald Patton.
Redinger’s son Patrick, 23, was arrested on an outstanding, no-bail warrant for violating terms of probation, Patton said.
Deputies recently received a tip from an informant that drugs were being sold out of Redinger’s north San Bernardino home.
When police arrived with a search warrant, they found handguns, semiautomatic weapons including a Tec-22, and an assortment of shotguns and rifles in a large safe in Redinger’s bedroom. They also found a surveillance camera out front, connected to a video monitor in the lawyer’s bedroom, Patton said.
“We found methamphetamine inside the safe,” he said.