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Tenn. Sheriff stole 21 guns.....
cougar_xing
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I have a friend, Terry who has been separated for six months from his wife in Tennessee. This past Thursday Feb. 26. The Dyer County sheriffs Department raided a private residence in Trenton, Tenn. with a search warrant for drugs! He gets a call from his wife informing him that the good-ol-boys took all 21 of his guns, nine of them handguns. He called the Sheriff and was told they know nothing about the guns. There are no guns listed as being removed from the residence. And that if Terry was to try to get them back he would be charged with drug possession!
He contacted a lawyer that wants $2000.00 retainer. My question is.... does he have a chance in hell?
bob
He contacted a lawyer that wants $2000.00 retainer. My question is.... does he have a chance in hell?
bob
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did they remove drugs from his residence?
tell us a little bit more on what happenned here.what was on the search warrant? etc.
happiness is a warm gun, preferably preban
What happen the sheriff got a search warrent to search the house for drugs! The wife who Terry was doing a favor to and let live there. Had some pot. It is not clear if she was dealing or just using. The Sheriff found the guns and asked her about them! She said they where Terrys her husband and that he does not live in the state any longer. They arrested her for the pot... and took all the guns but did not list them on the report. Terry lives a couple states away with another woman. He has been clean of any drugs for over a year. The lady Terry is living with now called and the under sheriff told her that the Sheriff took all the guns and they if Terry Tried to get them back he would be charged with drugs. The point is!!! They took the gun's, removed them from the house and did not list them on the report.
I feel this is stealing and I would think stealing guns would be a federal offence?
bob
outlaw guns and only me and the outlaws will have guns!
I doubt if the ACLU would take up his case...but the NRA just might!
John
A friend will post your bail. A good friend will be sitting next to you in the cell saying, "man that was fun!"
Quote "Somehow government decided that the Constitutional Bill of Rights has become the Bill of "Suggested" Rights and are to be rationed to the citizens as the power elite sees fit"
Report them as stolen...good point. But report them to who? The law enforcement group that took them to begin with? That probably wouldn't get very far, and I doubt that IF the sheriff, or deputies that served the warrant actually did take them, that any paper work would be filed past the complainant's. All this means is that they got 20+ firearms.
If the files them as stolen, he has to have serial numbers to give them for them so that in the event that they might be eventually recovered, then he could regain possession. You gotta have more than "it was a 12 gauge Remington 870."
I sure as heck hope it ain't a true story though.
John
A friend will post your bail. A good friend will be sitting next to you in the cell saying, "man that was fun!"
happiness is a warm gun, preferably preban