JimBowie1958
Old Fogey
- Sep 25, 2011
- 63,590
- 16,776
- 2,220
This is an outrageous way to treat our veterans, and the gun grabbing thugs in various police departments are targetting veterans as risky potential criminals.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJvEEJwFMt4]Iraq Vet Brutalized Over Guns in Washington, D.C. - YouTube[/ame]
MILLER: SWAT rampage destroys Iraq vet's home over guns - Washington Times
MILLER: Iraq vet jailed two weeks for guns - Washington Times
Reminds me of this story, but people got killed here, not just thrown into jail and 'lost' for two weeks.
Iraq Veteran Gunned Down At Home : Coverup?
Washington DC is the sphincter of the US.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJvEEJwFMt4]Iraq Vet Brutalized Over Guns in Washington, D.C. - YouTube[/ame]
MILLER: SWAT rampage destroys Iraq vet's home over guns - Washington Times
While Army Sgt. Matthew Corrigan was sound asleep inside his Northwest D.C. home, the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) was preparing to launch a full-scale invasion of his home. SWAT and explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) teams spent four hours readying the assault on the English basement apartment in the middle of the snowstorm of the century.
(This is part two of a four part series on Sgt. Corrigan's case. Click here to read the first story.)
The police arrested the veteran of the Iraq war and searched his house without a warrant, not to protect the public from a terrorist or stop a crime in progress, but to rouse a sleeping man the police thought might have an unregistered gun in his home.
MILLER: Iraq vet jailed two weeks for guns - Washington Times
t. Corrigans family and friends were desperate to find him, but they were unable to because city bureaucrats didn't bother to enter his correct name or birthdate into the system. That made it impossible for anyone on the outside to locate him...
The Superior Court arrest affidavit gave the defendants name as Matthew Carrigan. The arrest warrant also has the wrong birth day and month. The MPD arrest report from Officer Dino McFadden also had the same incorrect information.
The police did know Sgt. Corrigan's actual name. MPD Lt. Robert Glover report to Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier on Feb. 9 (written while Sgt. Corrigan was in jail) gave the soldier's correct name and birth date. The emergency response teams incident report dated Feb. 3 also has the correct information.
A spokesman for MPD refused to comment on this case. The D.C. attorney general's office also declined to comment.
To make matters worse, when Sgt. Corrigan arrived at the jail, the administrator wrote his last name on the prison wrist badge as Carrington. He protested, saying no one will be able to find him with the wrong name on his records, but was assured that he could be found with his prison identification number. Not so. The problem was that this jail ID was associated with the wrong name and wrong birth date.
Ms. Lal was turned away from the prison four times as she desperately attempted to find him. I think this kind of thing would happen in India, she said of the country of her birth. But not in a billion years would I think this would happen in the United States of America.
Without any contact with the outside world or knowledge of when his ordeal would end, Sgt. Corrigan steeled himself for getting along as best he could in the system.
21 Guns
Possessing firearms in the District will make you a target for criminals. When Sgt. Corrigan was arraigned, the line of other defendants in court waiting their turn heard the gun charges against him. Word quickly spread through the jail population that the soldier was a source for illegal guns. The inmates nicknamed him 21 guns and constantly badgered him for help in securing firearms for them on the outside.
Reminds me of this story, but people got killed here, not just thrown into jail and 'lost' for two weeks.
Iraq Veteran Gunned Down At Home : Coverup?
Washington DC is the sphincter of the US.