Mark Witaschek prosecuted for shotguns shell in D.C., no gun

Jailed and later convicted for muzzleloader bullets, then tax investigation launched

I met Mark Whitaschek in 2013 after D.C. raided his Georgetown house — without a warrant —looking for unregistered guns. After handcuffing him, pulling his son out of the shower, blasting through safes, ripping through doors, they found one inert shotgun shell and muzzleloader bullets.

He went to jail. The city prosecuted him for “possession of unregist…