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I was leaving Walmart today with my family and saw, like seven police officers cuffing a guy. One officer removed, what looked like an XD (judging from the holster) from his side. It appeared to be an OC situation (although I admit that I didn't see if he had his shirt tucked in on that side before hand). But the hand gun was DEFINITELY not loaded and the guy appeared relatively calm. By the time I left, they had not arrested the guy, rather had him sitting on the front bench while two or three of them were on the phone (I imagined that they were frantically calling back to HQ trying to find something to charge the guy with).
Anyone have any hook-ups with the Murrieta PD? Just curious what the whole story was.
The guy was a younger black male wearing an LAPD hat, T-shirt and jeans. If he WAS OC'ing, he wasn't doing it very smart. He had no one else with him, no tape recorder, and no literature with him.
Well...curiosity got the best of me (plus I REALLY wanted to bring you guys the rest of the story here). So I called the Murrieta Walmart and asked for a manager. I told them that I was a reporter (haha) for the PE and we were doing a blurb on the arrest yesterday. The lady was pretty apprehensive and told me that they were not at liberty to discuss it. I told her that I have police reports and that I knew that there WAS an arrest, I just wanted to get a quick statement. She said, "Well...it wasn't really an arrest. It was an incident that was against our store policy". So I said, "OK..so I think I understand. So this person didn't commit a crime in your store, he was just carrying an unloaded hand gun. This is why he wasn't charged. Right?"
"Exactly" she answered.
"And do you have your store's firearm policy posted?"
"No we don't" (I didn't want to tip her off and start a lecture so I just said thank you very much)
So there ya go. It was definitely an OC situation. I personally saw the police call in the serial on his gun and do a search on him (I'm not sure if he gave his consent or not though).
Anyone have any hook-ups with the Murrieta PD? Just curious what the whole story was.
The guy was a younger black male wearing an LAPD hat, T-shirt and jeans. If he WAS OC'ing, he wasn't doing it very smart. He had no one else with him, no tape recorder, and no literature with him.
Well...curiosity got the best of me (plus I REALLY wanted to bring you guys the rest of the story here). So I called the Murrieta Walmart and asked for a manager. I told them that I was a reporter (haha) for the PE and we were doing a blurb on the arrest yesterday. The lady was pretty apprehensive and told me that they were not at liberty to discuss it. I told her that I have police reports and that I knew that there WAS an arrest, I just wanted to get a quick statement. She said, "Well...it wasn't really an arrest. It was an incident that was against our store policy". So I said, "OK..so I think I understand. So this person didn't commit a crime in your store, he was just carrying an unloaded hand gun. This is why he wasn't charged. Right?"
"Exactly" she answered.
"And do you have your store's firearm policy posted?"
"No we don't" (I didn't want to tip her off and start a lecture so I just said thank you very much)
So there ya go. It was definitely an OC situation. I personally saw the police call in the serial on his gun and do a search on him (I'm not sure if he gave his consent or not though).
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