armypilot
Regular Member
imported post
So here's the story
I'm on my way back home from Chili's in Wallingford. I stop at Bank of America on Route 5 five to make a $130 deposit. Apparently, someone had recently tried to tamper with thee drive through ATM at this branch. I'm carrying and I have had 3 beers in the past 2-2.5 hours. 2 of he 5 plain-clothed cops stop me when they see the Glock and IMMEDIATELY detain me. A friend and his girlfriend e in my car and he was driving. They pull all of us out, put me into a squad car, and question all three of us. I have my carry license on me and have 3 pistols in my trunk, from shooting earlier this week. They run the SN's on all 4 pistols and the come up clean, obviously. I'm repeatedly questioned and cross questioned by what my friends said (I'm in the squad car..you know the tactic..see if they stories are straight). The cops ask me if I had drank and I said, "yes, 3 beers within the past few hours...far from DUI levels, wanna test me?" they say that it's not necessary, we just want to make sure everything is legit. SO after 50 minutes of quesioning and calling in just about everythin they possibly can, I'm told that I'm free to go and was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. All pistols, magazine, and the round that ws chambered are returned. I was a bit stressed and forgot to request my carry license, so I go back to the scene and am told they say that I must got to the police station to get my license back. SO, I got there, and after 30 minutes of waiting after being told "It'll be here shortly...", I'm told that I must call in the morning because they are holding it because..and I quote from the LT on duty at 12:28 PM on Mon morning, Sat July 25 2009, " your license is in question because you are intoxicated and you must call 203-294-2305 in the morning.
EXCUSE ME?! I told him that if I was drunk, I would have not been released because it is illegal to be intoxicated and carry. He said, "well, son, call in the morning" I'm 33 and served 10 years in the Army....son?!. Very degrading!
So here I am at 1:26 AM, with all my pistols in my possession but my license hijacked by the Wallingford PD. I need help and serious advice. I was NOT administered a breathalyzer, yet the STEAL my carry permit. I'm SURE it's gonna get "lost" somehow and I'm livid.
Now, I know a lot of y'all are gonna be sympathetic, and I appreciate it, but what do I do? I cannot afford a lawyer to fight this and now I cannot take me pistols anywhere because I might face arrest.
I'm angry and frustrated. I'm clearly the victim of "disarm the public"...an honest law-abiding armed citizen...to their own admission who was at the wrong place at the wrong time.
Please, I need advice and help!
So here's the story
I'm on my way back home from Chili's in Wallingford. I stop at Bank of America on Route 5 five to make a $130 deposit. Apparently, someone had recently tried to tamper with thee drive through ATM at this branch. I'm carrying and I have had 3 beers in the past 2-2.5 hours. 2 of he 5 plain-clothed cops stop me when they see the Glock and IMMEDIATELY detain me. A friend and his girlfriend e in my car and he was driving. They pull all of us out, put me into a squad car, and question all three of us. I have my carry license on me and have 3 pistols in my trunk, from shooting earlier this week. They run the SN's on all 4 pistols and the come up clean, obviously. I'm repeatedly questioned and cross questioned by what my friends said (I'm in the squad car..you know the tactic..see if they stories are straight). The cops ask me if I had drank and I said, "yes, 3 beers within the past few hours...far from DUI levels, wanna test me?" they say that it's not necessary, we just want to make sure everything is legit. SO after 50 minutes of quesioning and calling in just about everythin they possibly can, I'm told that I'm free to go and was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. All pistols, magazine, and the round that ws chambered are returned. I was a bit stressed and forgot to request my carry license, so I go back to the scene and am told they say that I must got to the police station to get my license back. SO, I got there, and after 30 minutes of waiting after being told "It'll be here shortly...", I'm told that I must call in the morning because they are holding it because..and I quote from the LT on duty at 12:28 PM on Mon morning, Sat July 25 2009, " your license is in question because you are intoxicated and you must call 203-294-2305 in the morning.
EXCUSE ME?! I told him that if I was drunk, I would have not been released because it is illegal to be intoxicated and carry. He said, "well, son, call in the morning" I'm 33 and served 10 years in the Army....son?!. Very degrading!
So here I am at 1:26 AM, with all my pistols in my possession but my license hijacked by the Wallingford PD. I need help and serious advice. I was NOT administered a breathalyzer, yet the STEAL my carry permit. I'm SURE it's gonna get "lost" somehow and I'm livid.
Now, I know a lot of y'all are gonna be sympathetic, and I appreciate it, but what do I do? I cannot afford a lawyer to fight this and now I cannot take me pistols anywhere because I might face arrest.
I'm angry and frustrated. I'm clearly the victim of "disarm the public"...an honest law-abiding armed citizen...to their own admission who was at the wrong place at the wrong time.
Please, I need advice and help!