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Active duty soldier stops by Walter Reed and is arrested
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 3:15 pm
by philip964
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Traveling through Washington DC an active duty soldier who was wounded stops by Walter Reed and is arrested for having unregistered guns. $10,000 worth of guns seized and not returned by DC police. He is shortly off on his third tour.
Re: Active duty soldier stops by Walter Reed and is arrested
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 3:45 pm
by Slowplay
Terrible - couldn't this have been avoided if he didn't consent to a vehicle search?
Re: Active duty soldier stops by Walter Reed and is arrested
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 3:50 pm
by gemini
Wow. Shameful behavior of the US Attorneys Office (but what do you expect).
A big double Poo on the MPD. And I hope Mr. Gardiner (sp?) will persue the issue of getting
the Lt's property returned asap.
I'm sure this incident makes him wonder exactly what freedoms he represents and what
freedoms he's fighting for.................
Re: Active duty soldier stops by Walter Reed and is arrested
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 3:52 pm
by gemini
Slowplay wrote:Terrible - couldn't this have been avoided if he didn't consent to a vehicle search?
Probably. But like many on this board.... he consented. Because the PoPo are our friends and he didn't think
he was doing anything illegal.
Re: Active duty soldier stops by Walter Reed and is arrested
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 3:56 pm
by thenick_ttu
gemini wrote:Slowplay wrote:Terrible - couldn't this have been avoided if he didn't consent to a vehicle search?
Probably. But like many on this board.... he consented. Because the PoPo are our friends and he didn't think
he was doing anything illegal.
Exactly... I've never been asked to search my vehicle but, up until now, I always would have said "yes" because I've never had anything to hide. After seeing this I've changed my outlook. I will
never consent to a search of any kind. You just never know what kind of LEO you will get, what kind of city/county/etc you are in. You just might be the person they try and use to make an example of.
Re: Active duty soldier stops by Walter Reed and is arrested
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 4:07 pm
by C-dub
I'm still upset at the police telling him he can only have weapons in DC in his home. The problem here is that his home is not in DC and he was passing through. How do they think people get their guns home? This is terrible and I hope he does get his guns back and they don't turn up accidentally destroyed due to a clerical error.
Re: Active duty soldier stops by Walter Reed and is arrested
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 4:20 pm
by Rex B
Hopefully the new congress next year will pointedly direct DC to honor the 2nd Amendment, or cut off funding until they do.