Posted on 12/20/2007 1:20:01 PM PST by WOBBLY BOB
An undercover Robbinsdale police officer involved in a June road-rage incident was indicted today in Anoka County District Court on a charge of making terroristic threats. Landen Beard was shot in the leg during the June 7 rolling dispute on a Coon Rapids side street. The other man involved, Martin Treptow, 35, was charged Wednesday with drive-by shooting, reckless discharge of a firearm and making terroristic threats. At the time, Beard was in one vehicle; in the other were Martin and Rebecca Treptow and their two children. What is known is that a horn-honking shouting match broke out between the Treptows and Beard near a Coon Rapids strip mall. Martin Treptow, a former security guard who is licensed to carry a handgun, eventually pulled out his weapon and fired from the driver's seat, over his wife and into Beard's car, hitting Beard in the leg.
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I didn’t report them to city officials because I wasn’t doing anything wrong and I had no reason to ‘report’ them. I knew they were playing a game with me trying to fluster me.
I was in a military uniform, and didn’t want to cause major issues while in uniform. I DID however, report them to the base commander. He made some kind of contact with the city mayor or city council and told them he’d go so far as to have his military people stay out of their town and not buy things there. I don’;t know if that made any difference and I had little reason ever to drive into that little town again.
Just so you get an idea (I forget the name of the town now) they had ten cops, a chief (the Sergeant I had to see) and another guy who was the fella that answered to the mayor. Not sure who he was.
But only cops should have handguns. Right? </s
According to the article from this thread. there were quite a few.
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