COWLITZ COUNTY Wash. (KPTV) - The Cowlitz County Sheriff’s Office says a man faces charges after trying to sell an illegal gun on Facebook Marketplace.

Detectives say that on Tuesday, they were tipped off about an unusual offer on Facebook Marketplace: a man was trying to trade a fully automatic submachine gun, a suppressor, and a motorcycle for an ATV.

They say he admitted the gun was illegal in Washington but told the seller, “Just don’t say anything.”

Deputies arranged a meeting for the next day in Woodland with SWAT nearby.

The suspect, 40-year-old Jacob Shawn Dixon of Salem, was arrested without incident.

A search of his vehicle turned up a fully automatic unserialized submachine gun, a suppressor, and a magazine.

Dixon, who was already a convicted felon with prior weapons charg

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