Posted: 3/4/2006 2:17:18 AM EDT
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www.wtkr.com/Global/story.asp?S=4582484 A traffic stop helps police make a major bust. Thursday night Hampton Police pulled over a 25-year-old man for reckless driving. During the traffic stop police found marijuana in his car. Police obtained a search warrant for the suspects home in the 5000 block of Arony Street. There they found two ounces of cocaine, a .375 caliber handgun, .45 caliber handgun, .22 caliber handgun, an M-16 rifle, a fully automatic machine gun pistol with an attached silencer and $2,500 in cash. The suspect is charged several felonies including disorderly conduct, possession of cocaine with the intent to distribute and possession of a fully automatic firearm. 
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My guess would be that the marijuana they found in the car was enough for them to start thinking about building a PWID (possession with intent to distribute, ie more than personal use) charge, and he did or said something to help build it. Again, pure conjecture. |
Were I to guess, I'd have to go with a confidential informant (CI) or jailbird-looking-for-his-own-replacement diming the scrote out, more likely the former. With a CI's assertion as to the presence of a machine gun in the vicinity of the scrote's house, we (the society, the good guys, or us good citizens and the cops ... your call) are best served by a 'staged' takedown off-premises, followed up by a comparitively safe warrant search for the heavy duty stuff. +1 on noting anything the scrote did or said to help justify the warrant, if for no other reason than the aid in admissability. Two ounces of coke and a silenced machine gun more than qualifies as heavy duty stuff. Hopefully this scrote knows enough intel to buy a reduced sentence by putting some of the higher-ups on the good-guys' radar screens. His current beef seems likely enough to merit a life term that maybe a little cooperation will be forthcoming. |