The 27-year-old son of a missing Easton, Connecticut, couple has been arrested on a federal firearms charge.
The U.S. Attorney's Office says Kyle Navin is expected to appear in federal court in Bridgeport on Tuesday afternoon. Details of the charge weren't immediately released. He has not been charged in connection with his parents' disappearance, though sources told NBC Connecticut he has been named a person of interest in the case.
Kyle Navin is the son of Jeffrey and Jeanette Navin, who disappeared from their Easton home on Aug. 4, shortly after moving from Westport, state police said.
He told police that his parents visited him in Bridgeport the morning they vanished and asked to take him to dinner. according to warrants, but Kyle said he had a broken back and declined. That was the last anyone heard from Jeffrey and Jeanette Navin.
Five days after the couple disappeared, a state trooper found their pickup in a Westport commuter lot, according to authorities. It had a broken window and investigators have taken more than a dozen swab samples from the vehicle, according to the warrants.
As police search for the couple, crews have scoured the Putnam Ash Residue Landfill, a 186-acre site operated by Wheelabrator Technologies that is used to dump ash from all the state's waste-to-energy plants.
Search warrants NBC Connecticut obtained in the case revealed some details in the case, including that no phone calls have been made from the couple's cellphones since the day they disappeared, and that those phones have since been turned off.
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Jeffrey Navin serves as president of the J&J Refuse waste management company in Westport, while Jeanette works as a school library aide in Weston.
Kyle Navin, who is listed online as operations manager of J&J Refuse, told police the family was in the process of selling the company, according to warrants obtained by NBC Connecticut.
About a week before the Navins vanished, a judge denied Jeffrey Navin's motion to reopen a case appealing more than $2.2 million in debt on a $900,000 Guilford home. Other relatives have said they don't believe the couple's finances factored into their disappearance.
Police have also searched the couple's current and former homes and one of their bank accounts.
State police ask anyone who knows where Jeffrey and Jeanette Navins are or who has any information to call state police at 860-685-8190. All calls will remain confidential.
No additional information was immediately available on the charged filed against Kyle Navin.
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