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Exhibit A:
Retired Westmoreland deputy in court for allegedly selling seized firearms
So, why won't the Guv clean this up? Oh right, he always supports law enforcement.
Interesting how, if your weapon gets stolen, then used in a crime and 'seized' it's going to get inscribed (defaced? vandalized?) by our public servants before (possibly) being returned to its rightful, lawful owner.
Good to know.
Retired Westmoreland deputy in court for allegedly selling seized firearms
A retired Westmoreland County deputy sheriff was in federal court Thursday for allegedly selling firearms seized in criminal cases that he was supposed to be destroying.
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David Schiller, an assistant U.S. attorney, told Novak on Thursday that the case involved more than 15 firearms. Hinson’s lawyer, David L. Carlson, told the judge that his client said he has done nothing wrong.
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The cooperating individual said the friend got the weapons — a .38-caliber revolver, .32-caliber revolver and a 9mm semi-automatic handgun — from a man identified only as a second cooperating individual who said he got them from Hinson.
According to the affidavit, two of the guns appeared to have been inscribed with numbers used by forensic laboratories to mark evidence. The Virginia Department of Forensic Science confirmed the weapons had been examined in its laboratory, one in 2009 for the Colonial Beach Police Department and the other in 2011 for the Westmoreland County Sheriff’s Office.
The weapons were turned over to the ATF. The first individual then bought a KelTec 9mm rifle with obliterated serial numbers from his friend. The second cooperating individual said that weapon also came from Hinson, according to the affidavit.
In January, the first individual was given four more handguns, two with obliterated serial numbers, by the second. Later in January the first individual bought four 12-gauge shotguns all with obliterated serial numbers. Some of those weapons also appeared to have forensic lab numbers, alleged the ATF.
So, why won't the Guv clean this up? Oh right, he always supports law enforcement.
Interesting how, if your weapon gets stolen, then used in a crime and 'seized' it's going to get inscribed (defaced? vandalized?) by our public servants before (possibly) being returned to its rightful, lawful owner.
Good to know.