Move over, Florida Man. There’s a new mysterious man taking over headlines, and he outguns you by a long shot.

The decomposing body of Jeffrey Alan Lash was found in a vehicle parked in an affluent California neighborhood. Once police searched his home, investigators stumbled upon a stash of 1,200 handguns, rifles and shotguns and more than two tons of ammunition.

So why did this man have $500,000 worth of firearms stockpiled in his home? According to Lash’s fiancee, it was because he was a secret agent.

Lash died on the Fourth of July when he began to feel hot and sick. His fiancee Catherine Nebron spent three hours trying to cool him down, but Lash died of natural causes in the middle of his Independence Day barbecue. Rather than alerting the authorities, Nebron lugged the body into an SUV and abandoned it down the street.

According to Nebron’s lawyer, Lash had told his fiancee that he was an undercover operative for an unnamed government agency that constantly tracked his movements. Lash also told Nebron that he had cancer and “he had been exposed to nerve-damaging chemicals on a mission and his condition was worsening.” For this reason, Nebron assumed her fiance’s passing would be quietly swept under the rug by the shadowy agency he worked for.

To make this story even more bizarre, police found 14 vehicles registered in Lash’s name, including an SUV designed to drive underwater.

“The story itself sounds totally crazy but then how do you explain all this?” said Nebron’s attorney, Harland Braun. “There’s no evidence he was a drug dealer or he stole these weapons, or had any criminal source of income, no stolen property, all the stuff you’d look for.”

No one really knows much about Lash or his mysterious past. For now, police are busying themselves by determining whether all 1,200 of his guns were legally purchased and owned.

Associated Press