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

[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)