These stories always drive me nuts. The guy appears to be a no-good gang-banger type, but the reporting about the guns is goofy. "A military grade arsenal including two semiautomatic sub-machine gun pistols, two Tec-9 handheld machine guns, and a SKS assault rifle." That aint much of a military arsenal. Love those semi-automatic sub-machineguns too. And the guy that whines about the "machine guns", don't evev get me started. Of course the police are going to take everything out to the range and play with it, and even let them film it. That should make good footage for the next gun-ban attempt.
Why does the story always wind up being more about the guns than the bad guy? God, that drives me nuts. The story even ends with "an arsenal off the street", what about the bad guy? Is he "off the street"? Or will he be released soon and continue breaking laws? I'd better stop before I get on a roll.
Just thought you guys may want to know, it's supposed to be reported on channel 12 in Cincy.
Here's the story from channel 12...
High Powered Weapons Found In Local Home
LAST UPDATE: 4/3/2006 11:09:05 PM
Police find a military-style arsenal of high powered weapons inside a local home.
A raid took place last Friday at the home on Capstan Drive in Colerain Township. Neighbors there can't believe what they saw police hauling out of the home.
Local 12's Shawn Ley has details of the raid you'll only see on Local 12.
Local 12 has learned of a major weapons raid in an unlikely place: Capstan Drive in Colerain Township. A place where neighbors are used to seeing kids playing in the street, but last Friday afternoon, Sean Mayborg came home to this:
"The whole street blocked off," said Mayborg. "About 30 officers I would say. It was quite a sight."
Mayborg lives directly across the street from the home he says was targeted by sheriff's investigators, undercover Cincinnati Police officers, and federal agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms. It was clear what they were after.
"From what I seen, all they brought out was weaponry, which scared a lot of the neighbors," said Mayborg.
"The machine guns, I mean, me, with a child, and a lot of these people have children around here, and that scared a lot of people."
Police confirm they seized at least eight weapons from the home, including a military-grade arsenal of two semiautomatic sub-machine gun pistols, two Tec-9 handheld machine guns, and a SKS assault rifle, fully loaded with an attachment holding 100 rounds.
Police arrested Larry Foster, wanted on a previous weapons charge.
Investigators say he's part of a local rap music production team called "Beat Gang Entertainment," allegedly telling police he needed the arsenal for protection.
An arsenal now off this street, for good.
Cincinnati Police say they'll give us a look at those weapons Tuesday, when they plan to test fire them at the police gun range.