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FBI GUNS STOLEN FROM AGENT'S CAR

Josey1Josey1 Member Posts: 9,598 ✭✭
edited December 2001 in General Discussion
FBI GUNS STOLEN FROM AGENT'S CAR By PHILIP MESSING and MURRAY WEISS
December 28, 2001 -- Three high-powered FBI guns - along with a laptop computer and a digital camera - were stolen in Queens from an agent who left them overnight in a parked car, sources told The Post. And to add insult to injury, the thief also ripped off an FBI parking sticker. The unmarked FBI vehicle was vandalized sometime after 2 p.m. Wednesday after Agent Jennifer Bleier parked at 121st Street and 22nd Avenue in College Point, sources said. Bleier, 32, told cops she returned to the car at 6 a.m. yesterday and found the front window broken. It was not clear what she was doing in the area. Sources said Bleier told cops that a Glock .40-caliber semi-automatic handgun, a Heckler & Koch 10mm submachine gun and a Remington .12-gauge shotgun were taken. The shotgun and submachine gun were taken from a rack mounted on the front seat of the vehicle that was visible from the street, one law-enforcement official said. The official was unable to say whether the missing computer or the digital camera contained data or images that were part of an ongoing criminal probe or were Bleier's personal property. FBI agents and cops were combing the area to try to recover the weapons. A federal source said the FBI plans an internal review. Sources told The Post Bleier has had a checkered career with the bureau. Earlier this year, her colleagues booted from her anti-drug squad in a "Survivor"-type vote held because the squad's supervisor was under orders to transfer one of his agents, a source said. But after Bleier complained, FBI brass transferred her boss instead. http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/37007.htm

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  • idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Something similar to this happened a few years ago in Florida didn't it?
  • bsebastbsebast Member Posts: 190 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yep! I knew a cop (swat team member) in Plano, Texas who lost a H&K machinegun out of his personal car. It was finally recovered after some idiot tried to sell it to a junk dealer.
  • ndbillyndbilly Member Posts: 1,573 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    What the hell was she thinking? Leaving those weapons in sight while the car was parked overnight? Were it you or I and those weapons ended up involved in some criminal mayhem we would (rightfully) be charged with some manner of negligence. By definition, FBI agents are some of the most highly trained and well educated law enforcement officers in the world. If the above news report is accurate, she should be relieved of duty immediately and dismissal procedings should begin.
  • badboybobbadboybob Member Posts: 1,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I agree ndbilly. That woman must be a real airhead. How someone so stupid got into the FBI is a mystery to me.
  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Where FBI have to have a degree in accounting or law before even applying, one can only conclude that this agent is one of those long on intellectual acumen and VERY short indeed on common sense / street smarts. Leave a SMG visible in a parked car overnight in NYC?! That surpasses merely stupid.
  • RUGERNUT3RUGERNUT3 Member Posts: 247 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ...How much are we paying her to, uh, protect us from terrorist and other bad guys?? TOO MUCH! Gotta go with ndbilly on this one,...boot her butt...
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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    Nice to know that Affirmative Action is alive, well and working.Worse than this stunt, can you imagine an idiot like her on the business end of a loaded machine gun? That scares the hell out of me.
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  • berto64berto64 Member Posts: 57 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Is she a blonde?berto
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  • v35v35 Member Posts: 12,710 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hard to believe and impossible to accept.
  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,078 ******
    edited November -1
    Had an ex-step-father-in-law who was a counterfeiter and stolen car runner. He always chuckled at the FBI, called them Fumbling Bunch of Idiots.He ended up doing Federal time, but was caught by state cops.The FBI used to hire and train law enforcement officers. They used to be a force to be reckoned with. No more. Now they hire lawyers, accountants, and computer programmers, and train them very little in real world policing. The FBI is great at maintaining statistics, their primary function. Also, through the National Academy they are teaching YOUR local police administrators how to Federalize YOUR local agencies, and get them in line with the One-World way of doing things.I say, slash their budget.
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  • 7mm_ultra_mag_is_king7mm_ultra_mag_is_king Member Posts: 676 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Lowrider hit it on the head, affirmative action.
    when all else fails........................
  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    nunn, dano, I have nothing but the deepest respect for you professionally and personally, and I'm sure your experience gives you far better insight into the quality of the FBI personnel than the layman, but you *are* incorrect in stating that the accountant persona is something new. At least since Hoover took over, and possibly before, applicants must have degrees in either accounting or law even to be considered for training.
  • BullzeyeBullzeye Member Posts: 3,560
    edited November -1
    Why the hell did she have a 12-gauge, a Glock, AND an MP-10 with her anyway? I can understand keeping the pistol on her hip (as FBI regs require, I think), with the shotgun or the '10 in the car for emergencies, but all three in one place makes me very suspicious.My bet: Fired them in once training, req'ed them because she's got a female inferiority complex, and then never thought to train with them again.Sounds like the way a lot of civilians act towards firearms. A real shame, too. I'd sell both my legs for an MP-10. Real sweet firearm.
  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well, that could have been my last mistake of 2001 (no, wait, I still have 14 hours left, plenty of time!) . . . . The requirements may have been changed since I last looked at them (some 15+ years ago when I was thinking about it). That was for field agents, not for scientific personnel, BTW, and w/ the computer crime stuff they may also have exceptions for the geeks?
  • salzosalzo Member Posts: 6,396 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Just another reason why Law Enforcement should not be exempt from "gun safety" laws.
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