Oklahoma cop gets "year and a day" in prison for pawning his service weapons

https://web.archive.org/web/20231104145807/https://www.kxii.com/2023/11/03/former-texoma-police-officer-sentenced-firearms-charge/

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misophist@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Fun fact: for federal charges of a year or less, you must serve the entire sentence in full. Add a single day onto that year and you become eligblible for early release.

some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 2y

Oh, that is so fucked up.

UsernameHere@lemmings.world · 8 pts · 2y

I heard he pawned them to buy more Ketracel White

nothingcorporate@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 2y

Which is two years more than cops get for murdering black people.

Enkers@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Is his name Harry DuBois?

Fullest@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y

that's Detective Raphaël Ambrosius Costeau to you!

LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Does second “amindmint” protect your rights to pawn the firearm?