BALTIMORE — A man is wanted after police found 80 illegal ghost guns and an arsenal of weapons inside a home, according to the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office. 

Police said Jerod Taylor, 39, fled the scene of a reported domestic assault on November 7 before police responded to a home on the 20000 block of Goddard Road in Lexington Park.

During their investigation, officers found multiple guns in plain sight, despite Taylor being barred from possessing firearms due to his prior convictions.  

Detectives executed a search warrant on the home and nearby vehicles, leading to what police called a “extensive collection” of weapons.  

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Police said they found 3D-printed “ghost guns,” semi-automatic rifles, handguns, shotguns, an AK-47, 18 suppressors, and over 1,300 rounds of ammunition. They also found 74 auto sears, which are used to convert firearms to fully automatic weapons, and a 3D-printed, fully automatic rifle were also found, according to police. 

Taylor is charged with illegal possession of ammunition, unlawful possession of an assault weapon with intent to sell, second degree assault, and several other related charges. He also has an outstanding warrant for theft. 

He is described as a “white male, 5’10” tall, weighing approximately 150 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes, and is considered armed and dangerous,” police said. 

Authorities urge anyone who sees Taylor to call 911 immediately.

Melbourne, Australia — An emperor penguin found malnourished far from its Antarctic home on the Australian south coast is being cared for by a wildlife expert, a government department said Monday.

The adult male was found on Nov. 1 on a popular tourist beach in the town of Denmark in temperate southwest Australia — about 2,200 miles north of the icy waters off the Antarctic coast, according to a statement from the Western Australia state’s Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.

The largest penguin species has never been reported in Australia before, University of Western Australia research fellow Belinda Cannell said, though some had reached New Zealand, Australia’s neighbor almost entirely south of Denmark. It is believed to be the furthest north — and thus the furthest from their natural habitat — that a wild emperor penguin has ever been spotted.

“The furthest north they go from Antarctica is about 50 degrees south [latitude] from my readings and Ocean Beach is 35 degrees south,” Cannell told Australia’s national broadcaster ABC last week. “So, a lot further north than what they’ve ever tracked emperor penguins from Antarctica before.”

Cannell said she had no idea why the penguin traveled to Australia’s coast. She’s advising seabird rehabilitator Carol Biddulph, who’s caring for the penguin, spraying him with a chilled water mist to help him cope with his alien climate.

The penguin is 39 inches tall and initially weighed 51 pounds. A healthy male emperor penguin can weigh more than 100 pounds.

The Western Australia biodiversity department said its efforts were focused on rehabilitating the animal. Asked if the penguin could potentially be returned to Antarctica, the department replied that “options are still being worked through.”

ABC said last week that the errant animal was first spotted by a local surfer from Denmark, Aaron Fowler, who told the network he and some friends were baffled when they first saw it coming out of the water.

“It stood up in the waves and just waddled straight up to us, an emperor penguin, he was probably about a meter high, and he was not shy at all,” Fowler told ABC.

“There is always a bit of wildlife in the water but never a penguin,” he said. “He tried to do like, a slide on his on his belly, thinking it was snow I guess, and just face-planted in the sand and stood up and shook all the sand off.”

Emperor penguins are among the species directly threatened by the rising temperature of the oceans and seas across the world. According to The World Wildlife Foundation, about three-quarters of the world’s breeding colonies of emperor penguins are vulnerable to fluctuations in the annual sea ice cover in the Antarctic, which have become far more erratic due to climate change.

The penguins breed and live on sea ice, but the Antarctic Sea ice is disappearing as our planet warms up.

“They show up at the breeding season and the ice isn’t there, so they have nowhere to breed,” Dr. Birgitte McDonald, an ecologist at the Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, which is funded and administered by San Jose State University, told CBS San Francisco last year. 

An analysis by scientists at Cambridge University, published last year in the journal Science News found that “ice in one area was melting especially early in the year,” putting emperor chicks at extreme risk.

“Emperor penguins – their survival, their ability to reproduce – is 100% tied to having appropriate sea ice,” McDonald told CBS San Francisco.