Former Toledo LEO charged with stolen firearm

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Former Toledo LEO charged with stolen firearm

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Former Toledo police officer charged in federal court with possession of a stolen firearm
A former Toledo police officer was charged in federal court with possession of a stolen firearm.

Curtis Stone, 56, of Delta, was in possession of a Taurus .380-caliber pistol on December 4, 2018, that was previously recorded as being destroyed by the Toledo Police Department.

According to an affidavit filed in U.S. District Court:

Toledo police officers recovered a loaded Canik 9 mm pistol during a traffic stop in September 2018. Officers charged an occupant of the car with having a weapon under disability since he had previous convictions for drug and gang offenses.

An ATF task force officer subsequently investigated the incident and discovered the firearm had previously been recovered by Toledo police in 2015 and marked as destroyed in February 2016 by Stone, who was assigned to the Toledo Police Department’s property room at the time.

Stone retired from the Toledo Police Department in January 2018.

Toledo police obtained and executed a search warrant for Stone’s residence in Delta on December 4, 2018. They recovered the Taurus .380-caliber pistol, ten miscellaneous magazines for firearms, miscellaneous ammunition and two Toledo Police Department evidence tags/labels.

The Taurus pistol found in Stone’s home was previously recorded in Toledo Police Department property room records by Stone as having been destroyed.
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Wow. If you are going to do something that stupid at least make it worth it. A Canik 9mm and a Taurus .380? WTH?
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Gotta find a way to close the destroyed evidence loophole, amIright?
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WY_Not wrote:Wow. If you are going to do something that stupid at least make it worth it. A Canik 9mm and a Taurus .380? WTH?
If you're going to sell it to some gang banger anyway (like what might've happened with the Canik) what difference does the brand make?
There may be a lot of other guns he marked as "destroyed" that he's already sold and that hasn't made it back through the system yet like the Canik did.
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I'd bet there were more than those two firearms spirited out of the property room. Think of the various goodies that DON'T have serial numbers.
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Brian D. wrote:I'd bet there were more than those two firearms spirited out of the property room. Think of the various goodies that DON'T have serial numbers.
That was my first thought, as well. Also, while I don't know how civilian law enforcement agencies run their property rooms, military law enforcement property rooms require at least 2 people for any transfer of property custody. Meaning...my suspicion would be that this was not the only officer involved.
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sodbuster95 wrote:Also, while I don't know how civilian law enforcement agencies run their property rooms, military law enforcement property rooms require at least 2 people for any transfer of property custody.
There are very few actual standards. It's generally up to the agency within certain "best practice" guidelines. We use the BEAST system to seal (mostly in clear plastic) and barcode everything that comes in. The evidence room is actually two separate rooms, both controlled with key fobs. One is the work room where things are processed. There's then a series of lockers through which things can be passed to the second room. Only evidence room personnel have access to the second room, and they handle receiving the items into evidence and placing them in the appropriate storage location.

There's not a single place in any of the evidence areas not covered by HD cameras. Processing tables are plexiglass. Each week a shift supervisor is selected at random to audit a random section of the property room, according to a manifest from the BEAST. The cameras store footage for at least 60 days and the audits are staggered in such a way that every section is audited at least once every 30 days, so if anything goes missing there's time to review the full bar code trail and video evidence. One person can take an item out of evidence but they have to check it out through the BEAST. If they don't it'll turn up in the audit.

We spent a lot of drug money to build the evidence room and we've had zero problems since it was put into place. There weren't any known problems before but the chief wanted to get ahead of things. Other departments do far less and they've gotten away with it so far because there hasn't been a problem ... yet.
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djthomas wrote:Other departments do far less and they've gotten away with it so far because there hasn't been a problem ... yet.
It would seem that Toledo has a problem.
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