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Elderberry:
Law Enforcement Today by James E. Lewis 11/16/2019

According to an AGG report, William Stewart Boyd traded his father’s old .38 caliber Smith & Wesson snub nose for less than $100 in a gun buyback in 2004. It was supposed to be destroyed, but somehow the same handgun with serial number J515268 was found next to a dead body involved in a police shooting eight years later.

Boyd, a judge in Cook County, had taken the handgun to a South Side church in Chicago, Illinois where he handed it over to a pair of plainclothes officers with badges on their belts.

    “I’m doing the right thing,” he said in an interview with Chicago’s Sun Times, “and, in the process, someone didn’t do what they were supposed to do. That calls into question the process. What’s happening after you turn these weapons in?”

Great question – somehow, this Smith & Wesson .38 ended up in the hands of 22-year-old felon and gang member Cesar Munive – a man previously convicted of sexual abuse of a minor, unlawful use of a weapon, and battery.

During an interaction with the police in July 2012, Munive was shot and killed by Cicero (Illinois) Officer Donald Garrity.

More: https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/gun-from-chicago-buy-back-program-found-near-dead-gang-member-in-police-shooting/


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PeteS in CA:
The gun was "bought back" in 2004. It showed up at a crime scene 8 years later and 8 or 10 miles away. Somebody's - maybe several - got lots of 'splainin' to do. Did the gun get returned to the streets? Did the gun somehow find its way into Officer Garrity's hands and get planted by him? Ordinarily I'd guess the former, but Garrity seems to have been a corner-cutter.

catfish1957:

--- Quote from: Elderberry on November 18, 2019, 03:28:29 pm ---Law Enforcement Today by James E. Lewis 11/16/2019

According to an AGG report, William Stewart Boyd traded his father’s old .38 caliber Smith & Wesson snub nose for less than $100 in a gun buyback in 2004. It was supposed to be destroyed, but somehow the same handgun with serial number J515268 was found next to a dead body involved in a police shooting eight years later.

Boyd, a judge in Cook County, had taken the handgun to a South Side church in Chicago, Illinois where he handed it over to a pair of plainclothes officers with badges on their belts.

    “I’m doing the right thing,” he said in an interview with Chicago’s Sun Times, “and, in the process, someone didn’t do what they were supposed to do. That calls into question the process. What’s happening after you turn these weapons in?”

Great question – somehow, this Smith & Wesson .38 ended up in the hands of 22-year-old felon and gang member Cesar Munive – a man previously convicted of sexual abuse of a minor, unlawful use of a weapon, and battery.

During an interaction with the police in July 2012, Munive was shot and killed by Cicero (Illinois) Officer Donald Garrity.

More: https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/gun-from-chicago-buy-back-program-found-near-dead-gang-member-in-police-shooting/

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Just Damn.  Can you imagine, if weapon was found near body, and both parties of buy back program lost their paperwork? 

Huge lesson to be learned here for anyone crazy enough to consider particpating in one of these programs.

Cyber Liberty:
Obviously a drop gun.  The Poleezies have some 'splainin' to do.

mountaineer:
Yes, color me shocked that the gun never was destroyed.  *****rollingeyes*****

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