Feds, deputies step up search for Waller sheriff's stolen guns...(oopsie!)

[SoCalDem]

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Feds-deputies-step-up-search-for-Waller-6691866.php



Waller County Sheriff R. Glenn Smith is under fire for driving with so many firearms and for driving 30 minutes back to his office before reporting the theft.

Federal and local law enforcement investigators are aggressively searching for an arsenal of guns taken from the official truck of the Waller County sheriff earlier this month. "It's a pretty rare event" when such an arsenal of weapons is stolen from law enforcement, said Gary Orchowski, assistant special agent for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Houston. "Somebody must be feeling pretty brave to break into a marked truck like that."

The federal agency is working with sheriff's investigators from Harris and Waller counties to track down any leads.
But Waller County Sheriff R. Glenn Smith said, "I would not call any of these leads hot." He noted that the video surveillance cameras in the parking lot of the Katy-area restaurant where the truck burglary occurred were broken.

Smith was attending a holiday luncheon on Dec. 5 when thieves absconded with a lethal cache of weapons, including an HK UMP 45 submachine gun that is fully automatic and can fire 600 rounds a minute. They also snared a 300 Blackout rifle, another version of the AR-15 semi-automatic used in last week's San Bernardino, Calif., massacre, and six other handguns. Two guns were also taken from a county commissioner's vehicle in the same lot.Smith has been criticized for driving around with so many guns and for driving back to Waller County rather than reporting the crime once he realized his truck had been broken into and the guns were gone. Smith said he thought it was important to get the serial numbers for the weapons and enter them into a national database.

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(Google this nutcase...he's involved in the Sandra Bland case and other casss)

[gratuitous]

1. What the . . . ?

He routinely drives his official truck around with a submachine gun, a semi-automatic rifle, and six handguns?

But "it's a pretty rare event" and somebody (let's not call them thieves) was "feeling pretty brave," so you know, isolated incident, lone wolf, and hoocouldanode? I hope none of this unfortunate incident is used against Sheriff Smith to question his judgment or anything.

[WhiteTara]

2. Holy crap!

Fully automatic gun...why would he need to drive around with that?!?

[951-Riverside]

3. Sheriff Glenn Smith of Waller County, TX sold those weapons on the black market

...Is what I think

The primary issue is not how many weapons he had in his vehicle or the types, the issue is what he did (and didnt) do after discovering his vehicle had been broken into.

Most law enforcement officials will FREAK OUT if they find their vehicle broken into and weapons missing. They will immediately call 911, they will not wait 30 minutes to go back to the office to enter them into a national database.

I think he waited so long because he didn't want any Law Enforcement officers getting lucky and stopping the people he sold these weapons to so he gave them a head start to make sure they were out of town which could mean the people he sold them to don't fit in with the area and would have immediately raised suspicions to law enforcement.

Normally the first priority is alerting all law enforcement in the area about those weapons, he did not have to go to the office either. If he was driving a county vehicle with a mobile computer in it, he could have done it from the car or have the nearest law enforcement officer do it from theirs.

I guess the question now is who he sold those weapons to. Was it to a drug cartel, white supremacist group or someone else?

[MineralMan]

4. All hat and no brains under it.

There is zero need for full-auto weapons in the hands of local law enforcement. Zero. And this asshat had one, along with a bunch of other deadly crap in his vehicle while he was feeding his face. Now he's surprised that someone broke into his vehicle and stole them?

Firing is the first thing that should be done to this moronic excuse for a cop.

[951-Riverside]

5. -kick-

[winstars]

6. Judging by the size of his hat, he "is very very small down there". Reseller of guns or just stupid?

either one sucks for. us.