A Sunnyvale man has been charged with 25 felonies for allegedly operating a “thriving” drug business next door to an elementary school and possessing a cache of assault weapons and firearms, prosecutors said.

Brett Maxwell, a 51-year-old apartment manager, was arrested on suspicion of possessing firearms, assault weapons and narcotics for sale after the Santa Clara County Gun Violence Task Force located 19 firearms and “several pounds” of methamphetamine and heroin in his apartment and storage unit, according to a news release from the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office.

The cache of weapons also included explosives and ghost guns — weapons manufactured without serial numbers — and three of the firearms were assault weapons, prosecutors added. Authorities estimated that the dr

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