Probably a simple misunderstanding

 

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/01/nj_man_is_charged_with_weapons.html

 

 

Newark - An East Orange man was arrested on weapons charges this morning after he tried to enter a welfare office in Newark armed with a handgun, switchblade and a pair of brass knuckles, authorities said.

 

Essex County Sheriff’s officers stopped Kenyatah Rhodes, 40, inside the county’s Division of Welfare on Rector Street after an X-ray of his backpack revealed he was hiding several weapons, including a "fully loaded Beretta semiautomatic handgun," according to Sheriff Armando Fontoura.

 

"The suspect told us he showed up to apply for food stamps," Fontoura said. "With all the dangerous hardware he was packing it is obvious he wasn’t going to take ‘no’ for an answer."

 

Rhodes has been charged three counts of weapons possession, Fontoura said. He was being held at the Essex County Correctional Facility today. Bail was set at $20,000.

He should claim he thought it was one of those Cash for Guns programs and was turning it in to get his Gift Card.

So what happens to all the weapons they seize? Does it get destroyed? Or put in evidence and sits there indefinitely? Or do they auction it off?

Probably sits in evidence for an undetermined amount of time before being destroyed. Never auctioned.

 

I love the use of "fully loaded" when describing these crimes. As if it would be any better if the mag was half full...

He'll probably get 2 years probation, counceling, a WIC card and free heating oil from Hugo Chavez.

So what happens to all the weapons they seize? Does it get destroyed? Or put in evidence and sits there indefinitely? Or do they auction it off?

Evidence until the case is adjudicated, then it has to be kept for a period of time..after that it goes to be destroyed.

He'll probably get 2 years probation, counceling, a WIC card and free heating oil from Hugo Chavez.

 

Good one.