Posted on 08/18/2006 7:53:09 PM PDT by rightwinggoth
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Two members of the Louisiana National Guard sent in to help fight rising crime in storm-ravaged New Orleans have been charged with armed robbery, a National Guard spokesman said on Friday.
Sgt. Caleb Wells and specialist Junious Buchanan confessed to taking money out of the wallets of two motorists during a traffic stop on August 12, Lt. Col. Pete Schneider told Reuters.
The men were charged with armed robbery because they were carrying weapons but did not use them during the incident, according to a National Guard statement. The Guard did not say how much money was allegedly taken.
Wells and Buchanan were part of a force of 300 Guardsmen sent into New Orleans in June to help local police deal with rising crime as the city slowly recovers nearly a year after Hurricane Katrina.
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They were charged because they did not use them?
"Junious"?
Probably a couple of former N.O. cops....
Yeah, sounds like either sloppy reporting or the beginning of a botched case. Robbery always involves force or the threat of force. It sounds more like they just patted the guys down and took their wallets out to "check their ID", then handed them back a little bit lighter.
At least the parents were smart enough not to name him genius.
or were they?
In 1999, Jeb Bush signed a law in FL called the 10-20-Life law. The law requires a minimum 10-year sentence for committing crimes with a gun, a 20-year sentence for discharging the gun during the commission of the crime and 25 years to life if the bullet fired causes death or injury, even if it is to yourself. Crime in this state has declined ever since. Too bad LA doesn't have the same law. These guys are a disgrace to the uniform we all wear in the US Army and the Guard.
What am I bid to sink the ENTIRE state...without evacuating it first?
Jeez...what next?
"At least the parents were smart enough not to name him genius".
"...victims are making false claims." Dude, they CONFESSED fer chrissakes.
Oh...I guess the facts are all in. Thats what I get for posting, watching TV, and listening to music at the same time. Not in that order.
Sounds like Gov. Blanco's hesitancy to get the people out of NOLA, pending results of the toxicity of the water that filled the city. Hmmmmmmm, petro and other chemicals, sewage, rotting bodies, food and animals. Yup that water could possibly still be safe. The CDC in Atlanta was probably jumping the gun anyway.
yeah, it is a felony to carry a gun in commission of a crime. if they discharge them i believe it is substantially worse.
Who could ever think that they didn't use the guns?
By their very presence, the guns were used to intimidate the victims into submission.
I wonder if they named him after the KC Chief's Hall of Famer, Junious "Buck" Buchanan.
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