Police Say They Visited Tucson Suspect’s Home Even Before Rampage

[Mark Maker]

Source: NY TIMES

by Jo Becker, Kirk Johnson and Serge F. Kovaleski.


TUCSON — The police were sent to the home where Jared L. Loughner lived with his family on more than one occasion before the attack here on Saturday that left a congresswoman fighting for her life and six others dead, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department said on Tuesday.

A spokesman, Jason Ogan, said the details of the calls were being reviewed by legal counsel and would be released as soon as the review was complete. He said he did not know what the calls were about — they could possibly have been minor, even trivial matters — or whether they involved Jared Loughner or another member of the household.

A friend of Mr. Loughner’s also said in an interview on Tuesday that Mr. Loughner, 22, was skilled with a gun — as early as high school — and had talked about a philosophy of fostering chaos.

The news of police involvement with the Loughners suggests that county sheriff’s deputies were at least familiar with the family, even if the reason for their visits was unclear as of Tuesday night.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/12/us/12loughner.html?pagewanted=1&hp&adxnnlx=1294809024-QOk4XA3OWKQ0GsSiPrH62

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This seems to confirm the theory being talked about here locally that Americas Sheriff, Dupnik, is covering his ass and knew more about about this nutcase than he is letting on. At the very least Loughner should not have been able to legally buy a gun. At the worst it may be that they went easy on this moron because his mother Amy worked for the county.

In any case the whole thing seems to go back at least 4 years and nothing was done. Keep in mind that the Loughner home was 2 miles from where the shooting took place. Why was no one watching this loon?

Something stinks in Tucson, and Dupnik is right in the middle of it all. If Gabby Gifford was shot because the Sheriffs department dropped the ball there will be hell to pay!