Topic: 10,000 stolen guns found in South Carolina (Read 2505 times)

Maybe he was doing his part of keeping guns off the street...nah probably not.

Usually they only catch the stupid ones. Just think of how many caches of stolen this or that exist around the world. Most of them are owned by the FBI or CIA, or the government in general, in one form or another.

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Miami Police said an 88-year-old homeowner opened fire on a burglar who tried to break into her house Tuesday night.

Neighbors are applauding the widow’s actions. She lives alone in that home.

“Well that was awesome,” said one of the victim’s neighbors, Gladys Betancourt. “You have to do what you have to do to protect yourself. I’m glad she did this. She was a very brave woman. I wouldn’t.”

Betancourt told CBS4’s Peter D’Oench, “She took the initiative to do something. He won’t be back. I’ll tell you that.”

The lead detective in the case told D’Oench that it was 10:38 p.m. on Tuesday when Arlene Theresa Orms heard someone jiggling her front door lock and trying to get in her front door.

The detective said when the burglar kicked open that door, Orms shot him with her .25-caliber Beretta handgun.

It’s not known if that burglar was struck by the one bullet that she fired or if that burglar had an accomplice. But he was not able to steal anything before he fled from Orms’ home.

Orms’ next-door neighbor Maria Dominguez also commended Orms, saying, “It’s good.”

Another next-door neighbor, Raul Barreto, said, “I believe if someone tries to get into your house, maybe, shoot. You are not going to ask them are you going to be nice or good. The question is what are you doing on my property?”

Records show Orms has no criminal record.

Neighbors say she has lived alone in the home since her husband died in 1993.

The lead Miami Police detective in this case said he was not sure if Orms has a permit or not for her weapon but added the law does not require you to have a permit to use a weapon in your home.

He said Orms’ weapon has been taken as evidence but he also said she will be getting her gun back on Thursday. He also said police will be stepping up their patrols around the neighborhood.

Detective Sean Dorcely said he was scouring the neighborhood for surveillance tape that might show the burglar.

Neighbors say that there has been an increase in burglaries in their neighborhood.

“This neighborhood used to be a good place for the past 20 years,” said Betancourt. “But lately in the street, people are coming around.”

http://miami.cbslocal.com/2015/11/11/gutsy-granny-fights-off-home-invaders-in-miami/

Wednesday morning feel good stories

Near Columbia, South Carolina, a homeowner heard someone banging on his back door. When he went to check, he saw someone fiddling around with his vehicle, so he went out to confront the fellow. They got into an altercation and the homeowner fetched his firearm and shot the thief who collapsed about 100 yards away, he was transported to the hospital where he was declared DOT (dead over there). Funny thing, though, in the article, the deceased goes from being a “suspect” to being a “victim” after he’s shot. Journalists, huh? (It looks like they edited the story to read “suspect” instead of “victim” – that’s why I usually screen shot that stuff)

In Ladson, South Carolina, a thirteen year old boy who was home alone heard someone breaking into his home, so he went and grabbed his mother’s gun. The thief tried to break through the back door and the boy opened fire through the door. The criminal fired back and then took off. He was DOT (dead over there) at the hospital.

In Macomb Township, Michigan two grown men in their 50s got into a fist fight over leaves blown into a yard. The 57-year-old, who began the physical portion of the disagreement, was whipping the 52-year-old’s ass until the 52-year-old’s 68-year-old girlfriend came out of the house with her legal firearm and broke up the fight without discharging the gun. The 57-year-old was booked by the police, though.

Another lesson for the kids out there; in South Bend, Indiana, a licensed, legal gun owner has been arrested because he fired his gun at escaping shoplifters in a parking lot of a department store. The prosecutor charged the man with “criminal recklessness with a deadly weapon and pointing a firearm”. Shoplifting all by itself isn’t a capital offense.

Wednesday morning feel good stories

A man in New Braunfels, Texas shot a burglar, Phillip Owens, in his home. Police think that Owens is connected to a number of burglaries in the neighborhood which were also cases of arson, fires set to hide evidence of the robberies.

Sammy Stanfield came back to his home in the middle of the day from work in Carter County, Oklahoma and found 55-year-old Tommy Robbins coming out of his garage. Sammy tried to stop Robbins by brandishing his .22 rifle, but Robbins wouldn’t stop, even when Sammy fired a warning shot. Then he fired once again at Robbins, hitting his arm. When Robbins tried to escape in his car, Sammy disabled the vehicle with more fire. Finally, Robbins surrendered and police arrived to arrest the injured thief.

A criminal in Harris County, Texas, forced his way into a home and fatally stabbed a teenager who was in the shower. A neighbor noticed the ruckus and came to the rescue, a bit late, but he dealt some justice to the murderer who was declared DRT (dead right there).

mattinnc sends us a link to a story in Winston-Salem, North Carolina where three fellows tried to rob a jewelry store, but the owner of the store didn’t like their idea, so he pulled out his gun and shot one of them DRT (dead right there). His pals un-assed the AO.

In Gibsonia, Pennsylvania, a man was welding at his worksite when another fellow walked in the open overhead door, pulled a gun and demanded the working man’s wallet. The man with a job reached for his wallet, but came up with his legal firearm and he fired a shot, missing the criminal, but ending the robbery, as the thief un-assed the AO.

Tuesday morning feel good stories

In Lake Dunlap, Texas a homeowner sent an intruder to the hospital. He called the police to report a possible burglary, but in the intervening moments, before the police arrived, he shot the fellow in order to protect himself.

In Thorton, Colorado, a homeowner got in a fire fight with three burglars, killed one of them and held the others at gunpoint until the police arrived and the police just arrested everyone, including the homeowner, because…Colorado!
"We don't know who fired what shots yet, but we do know the homeowner fired upon the intruders. We are still trying to determine a motive for the robbery," Police spokesman Matt Barnes said.

Here´s a clue Sherlock, they wanted to steal the guy´s stuff.

Meanwhile, in San Antonio, Texas a woman was being robbed outside her boyfriend’s apartment. She notified her boyfriend who grabbed his firearm to lend aid to the victim. When one of the thieves turned to confront the boy friend, he shot both of them. Police report that they’re both in stable condition, which is good because they’re going to the jail when the hospital is done slicing them up.

wow what a story, i wonder how often small break ins happen, to total 10k guns!

Monday morning feel good stories

In Helena, Arkansas, four men pretended to be trick-or-treaters, they forced their way into the home with their shotgun leading the way. The homeowner was in his easy chair when that happened, so he reached in the chair and pulled out his handgun and fired once. The four goblins un-assed the AO unharmed leaving their shotgun and a rifle behind.

In Reading, Pennsylvania, three masked and armed men went to do some late night shopping at a market. They fired one round to establish their line of credit. Unfortunately for them, two late-night employees were also armed. They made one of the thieves DRT (dead right there) and another was DOT (dead over there) at the hospital, the third is in the wind.

Imagine how much taxpayer money that will waste/cost? Shit... damn guns. crazy usa!?

10,000 guns that's a lot of break ins. I wonder if he is one of those people who dispose of weapons for criminals. I would run the ballistics on every one of those fire arms and see if they come back to any unsolved murders.

Halloween Shooting Spree

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkM7fm2O9Gc

Sunday morning feel good stories

In Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, police spotted a stolen car at a gas station, the thief had seen them first so he high-tailed it out of the area. He ended up in Steve Dildine’s bedroom. Steve got his firearm and held the criminal until police arrived to haul him off to the hoosegow.



“He was right here when I put my gun on him, and then he screamed,” said Dildine. “I guess he thought I was actually going to shoot him.”

The suspect ran trying to get out of the home, but Steve didn't let him get away.

“I told him to keep his hands where I could see him,” said Dildine.

He walked up to the suspect, put an arm behind his back and walked him outside where he was arrested by Oklahoma City officers.

“You just don’t think that that’s going to happen to you. If I didn’t have a weapon, I could have been a dead guy if that guy had a weapon,” said Dildine. “You don’t know. You never know.”

In Harris County, Texas, four fellows tried to force their way into a home. That’s not a good idea in Harris County, Texas, since that’s where a lot of our feel good stories happen. It worked for a little while because the fellows held the family at gun point while they collected up their booty, but as soon as their backs were turned, the homeowner grabbed his own gun and lit them up while they made their getaway and hit one of the four. Police are currently looking for the other three.

Among one of the largest gun seizures in the Carolinas, investigators are finding oddities in the mountain of stuff taken from a Pageland man that range from an 1873 Springfield “trapdoor” rifle – the kind that George Custer’s troops used ineffectively at Little Bighorn – to a taxidermied alligator.

And then they had to tackle two more tractor-trailers stuffed top to bottom, front to back with hundreds of chainsaws, tools and tool boxes, fishing gear, hunting bows and taxidermied elk, deer, beavers, ducks, boars, turkeys and squirrels.

They are among the things that authorities believe Nicholson either stole or bought from people who had done the stealing. Most of it he piled in his brick house, steel storage building and the family liquor store in Pageland, about 16 miles south of Monroe, just over the South Carolina border, said Chesterfield County Sheriff Jay Brooks.

Estimates of how many guns have swung wildly from 4,000 to 10,000, but Brooks now figures it’s more like 5,000 to 6,000 – most are shotguns and hunting rifles. They also retrieved eight pallets of ammunition.

Authorities estimate the total value of the stash at more than $500,000.

“We think that 99 percent of these guns were brought to Mr. Nicholson to sell to him. He’d give you 40 to 100 bucks for it and take it and throw it into a pile of 200 more,” said Brooks, taking a break from the sorting out that will use up “a good chunk” of his office’s $3.2 million annual budget.

Nicholson, 51, who helped his father in the Pageland liquor store, had been charged before with receiving stolen property, along with other charges that include assault and battery, threatening people and ill treatment of animals, records show. Most of the charges were dismissed or weren’t prosecuted.

“I’m not sure why Brent thought he needed this many guns, why he wanted this many guns,” Brooks said. “He just seemed to be more of a hoarder. He hunted a little bit, but you can only use one gun at a time.”

“We believe this seizure in Pageland is historic,” Brooks said.

Days later, it was still the talk of Pageland, a town of 2,800 best known for its annual Watermelon Festival.

“Everybody’s talking about it,” said Mary Ann Nicholson, no relation to Brent. “But if anybody knew about it – about all those guns – nobody’s telling.”

Brent Nicholson and his family are well-known. But those who spoke about Brent declined to give their names.

One woman said Brent is “a likeable man” who was known to collect guns and avidly hunt. “But I didn’t know it was that many guns,” she said. “I don’t think anybody knew.”

She said he was also known to “help people who needed money to pay rent or bills. He’d tell them to bring him something of value – sort of a collateral – and when they paid him back, they’d get their property back.”

No one seems to think Nicholson used the guns, or even sold them. Some of the rifle barrels were rusting.

“You never know a person’s intentions, but if you’d seen the way those guns were all piled up and disorganized, it seems unlikely he had plans to use them,” said Chesterfield Sheriff’s Capt. Daniel Scott. ....more

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article41865006.html#storylink=cpy

Maybe this guy had gun fetish? I mean world is huge and there are lots of weird people everywhere.
He might have been using it at home for basically as a hobby.

Police: Customer with concealed carry license kills robber at corner store

A robbery was thwarted at a Southwest Side corner store Saturday night when a patron with a concealed carry license shot and killed an armed robber, authorities said.

Citing preliminary information, police said a man walked into a store in the 2700 block of West 51st Street in the Gage Park neighborhood around 7 p.m., announced a robbery to an employee working behind the counter and displayed a handgun.

Another employee came from the back of the store and the gunman pointed his weapon at her, police said. He then made her go to the back of the store, which also serves as a currency exchange.

After that, a customer who was also inside the business pulled out a gun and opened fire at the robber, killing him, police said. The robber was believed to be in his 40s, police said.

Police said the shooter has a valid concealed carry license and a valid firearm owner's identification card.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-1-dead-in-shooting-at-gage-park-business-20151031-story.html

Police: Fleeing bank robber threatens man with spatula

5:16 p.m. EDT October 30, 2015

Police arrested a 33-year-old Broward County man after they say he robbed a Wells Fargo and broke into a home armed with a spatula.

Brandon Stepherson, of Hollywood, was arrested on an unarmed robbery charge by the Fort Myers Police Department and armed home invasion count by the Lee County Sheriff's Office.

Stepherson was nabbed by K-9 units outside the house where the home invasion occurred 24 minutes after authorities say he robbed the Wells Fargo at 9250 Ben C. Pratt/Six Mile Cypress Parkway about 5:40 p.m. Wednesday

A man at the home told investigators that went inside the Old Hickory Boulevard house after smoking on the back porch when he found Stepherson standing in his kitchen, according to a sheriff's office arrest report.

He said that Stepherson demanded the keys to the car parked out front, but the man said he didn't have the keys.

Stepherson started pulling keys off the hook on the wall before he "armed himself with a plastic spatula and used a set of keys as a weapon (between his knuckles,)" the report said.

Stepherson then said to the man: "I don't want to hurt you, give me the keys to the car," the report said.

The men started yelling at each other and Stepherson tackled him to the ground. Another man in the house joined in on the fight and Stepherson ran out of the home, one of the men flagged down an officer, who arrested Stepherson.

Between the charges from the two different agencies, Stepherson is being held on a total of $350,000 bond.

The Florida Highway Patrol and FBI helped with the investigation.

http://www.news-press.com/story/news/crime/2015/10/30/wells-fargo-bank-robbed-fort-myers-police-detain-person/74770068/

Wait...you mean the homeowner hurt a poor, defenseless, innocent robber?

And he said "awww!"?

That's sooo mean.

What's a robber to do these days?

Toledo (13abc Action News) - Police release the 911 call of a gun owner who shot an armed robber.

Caller: I turned around and he said don't move don't move. I saw something in his hand, but I didn't give him a chance to try and shoot me first.

The victim 21-year old Terrance Reid says he came home from work and that's when Antonio Hadley tried to rob him. Instead Hadley got the shock of his life. Reid is a licensed gun owner. He shot the suspect one time.

Dispatcher: you said you shot at him?
Caller: Yeah.
Dispatcher: But you don't know if he's shot?
Caller: I think I hit him. I heard him say aw.

Police say the suspect later went to a local hospital for treatment for a gunshot wound to the stomach. Everyday Toledo police investigate robberies and break-ins. The victim's mother told 13abc her son bought a gun and got a permit this year after two break-ins on their street. Once Reid shot the man he immediately called 9-1-1.
The suspect is charged with robbery.

http://www.13abc.com/home/headlines/911--338483832.html

The first time Russell Jacobs knew Jesse Lyle Bruner was carrying a sawed-off shotgun was when the man turned to face him and pulled the trigger, police said Friday.

Bruner, 34, and "Rusty" Jacobs, 47, both died after shooting each other at very close range about 2 a.m. Thursday near 3700 South and 3100 East.

The lethal events began when Bruner tried to kick in Jacobs' front door. Unified Police Lt. Lex Bell said investigators believe Jacobs' house was chosen for an unknown reason, completely at random.

"It could have been any house on that street," Bell said.

Jacobs, a father of four, was in the house asleep, with his wife and an 18-year-old son. The three were the only ones home at the time, police said.

"Mr. Jacobs armed himself with a .45 and a flashlight and ran to the front door to see who was trying to break in. When the pounding on the door stopped, Mr. Jacobs, his wife and his 18-year-old son went outside to see if it was a prank but found no one in their yard. When they returned to their front door, they noticed shoe prints on the door where someone had tried to kick it in," Bell said.

Jacobs' wife called 911 to report the incident.

Jacobs then went back into his house, got dressed and got his .357 handgun, "because he trusted the .357 more, and he was concerned there might be a threat to his family and not a prank. Once dressed, Mr. Jacobs opened the front door to look around the yard again with the flashlight in his hand," Bell said.

After several minutes of searching his yard, Bruner appeared and started walking toward Jacobs "feigning an injury to his leg and asking to come inside," the lieutenant said.

Investigators speculated Friday that Bruner was holding his single-shot, sawed-off shotgun, which measured just under 2 feet, to his side and was pretending he had an injured leg to conceal it.

Believing he was the man who just attempted to kick in his door, Jacobs confronted Bruner to protect his family, according to Bell.

Recently, leaders in Jacobs' LDS ward had warned neighbors about burglaries in the area, Bell said. They believed that two homeless men, one of them being Bruner, were responsible. As of Friday, Unified police could not confirm whether Bruner was responsible for any recent car or home burglaries in the area.

Jacobs was "concerned for the rest of the neighborhood," the lieutenant said. "Mr. Jacobs followed Mr. Bruner as he walked north in the street, pointing a flashlight at him."

About four houses down the block, Jacobs said something to Bruner to the effect that he knew who he was, according to Bell. Bruner responded by saying something similar to, "So what if I am?"

Just as he said that, Bell said, Bruner fired his shotgun.

"The blast hit Mr. Jacobs’ outstretched left hand and flashlight first and then went into his chest. Mr. Jacobs then returned fire, shooting four shots at Mr. Bruner. Mr. Bruner was hit once through his arm and into his chest. Two shots went through his clothing in the stomach area but did not hit his body, and the fourth shot missed entirely," he said.

Jacobs' son, who had followed his father into the street, witnessed both shootings.

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865640282/Homeowner-was-unaware-intruder-had-gun-until-shots-were-fired-police-say.html

That's one of the most repugnant things I've ever read. Cite all your assertions to the contrary of actual justifiable homicide determinations or perish.