SJ Sheriff's Office: Allegations that guns improperly sold, purchased - Stockton Record
According to Prieto, the batch was stripped to the frame at the order of his sergeant who has since retired, and the frames were sent to Adamson Police Products, a police supply and gun store in Hayward. San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office employees returned to the store to buy the frames and reassembled the guns with the parts that had been removed. Adamson would have sold them to qualified individuals, who could have been deputies, but the purchases would have been no different than if any other qualified person or law enforcement officer walked into the store, Moore said. Federal authorities referred questions regarding state laws governing the destruction or conversion of evidence guns and department guns to the state Attorney General’s Office. ” “Based on deputy Prieto’s brave testimony and another sheriff employee, who is reluctant to come forward, I believe that the Sheriff personally knew evidence guns were illegally converted to personal property and that in regards to departmental... Source: www.recordnet.com
