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Newport men formally charged with stealing guns
By Associated Press, 4/8/2000 13:31
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) A convicted burglar has admitted he stole weapons from the Orleans County sheriff's office in September.
Joseph Montagno, 25, plead guilty to possession of stolen firearms in federal court in Burlington Thursday. He is scheduled to be sentenced on June 26.
Montagno and another Newport man, James P. Kelley, stole at least 18 guns from the evidence room of the sheriff's office in Newport, where Montagno was performing community service to work off his burglary sentence.
Montagno and Kelley were charged with stealing and possessing the firearms and transporting them over state lines to Massachusetts and Connecticut.
A routine traffic stop in Massachusetts on Sept. 24 led police to a cache of stolen weapons stashed in three states and the arrest of the two suspects.
Guns were recovered from the car Kelley was driving on Interstate 91 when he was stopped for a noisy muffler. Kelley allegedly confessed during the stop that he was carrying pipe bombs and stolen weapons.
The arrest led police to find Montagno and other guns stashed in Connecticut and Vermont.
The two were in Connecticut when Kelley panicked, abandoned Montagno and headed back to Vermont, police said.
Kelley pleaded innocent in Northampton District Court to three weapons theft counts, carrying a dangerous weapon, firearms and ammunition possession charges, disorderly conduct and motor vehicle violations.
Judge Robert Kumor ordered Kelley held on $50,000 cash bail.
Defense lawyer Dorothy Carlo had asked that Kelley, who has no prior criminal record and takes medication for schizophrenia, be released into the custody of his parents.
Who the hell came up with the idea of doing community service in the sheriff's office, and how the hell did the dimwit get access to the evidence room? How did they get the firearms out of the building? On the surface, it seems like these LEO's aren't much brighter than the criminals. Somebody in the Sheriff's office is sure to get a butt-chewin'!
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Times have changed, but the nature of man hasn't. That's why I always go to AA, "Alert and Armed".
By Associated Press, 4/8/2000 13:31
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) A convicted burglar has admitted he stole weapons from the Orleans County sheriff's office in September.
Joseph Montagno, 25, plead guilty to possession of stolen firearms in federal court in Burlington Thursday. He is scheduled to be sentenced on June 26.
Montagno and another Newport man, James P. Kelley, stole at least 18 guns from the evidence room of the sheriff's office in Newport, where Montagno was performing community service to work off his burglary sentence.
Montagno and Kelley were charged with stealing and possessing the firearms and transporting them over state lines to Massachusetts and Connecticut.
A routine traffic stop in Massachusetts on Sept. 24 led police to a cache of stolen weapons stashed in three states and the arrest of the two suspects.
Guns were recovered from the car Kelley was driving on Interstate 91 when he was stopped for a noisy muffler. Kelley allegedly confessed during the stop that he was carrying pipe bombs and stolen weapons.
The arrest led police to find Montagno and other guns stashed in Connecticut and Vermont.
The two were in Connecticut when Kelley panicked, abandoned Montagno and headed back to Vermont, police said.
Kelley pleaded innocent in Northampton District Court to three weapons theft counts, carrying a dangerous weapon, firearms and ammunition possession charges, disorderly conduct and motor vehicle violations.
Judge Robert Kumor ordered Kelley held on $50,000 cash bail.
Defense lawyer Dorothy Carlo had asked that Kelley, who has no prior criminal record and takes medication for schizophrenia, be released into the custody of his parents.
Who the hell came up with the idea of doing community service in the sheriff's office, and how the hell did the dimwit get access to the evidence room? How did they get the firearms out of the building? On the surface, it seems like these LEO's aren't much brighter than the criminals. Somebody in the Sheriff's office is sure to get a butt-chewin'!
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Times have changed, but the nature of man hasn't. That's why I always go to AA, "Alert and Armed".