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   From: lohsea@3web.nettax   
      
   On Sat, 05 May 2007 23:12:30 -0700, ©The_Smoking_Man@MJ12.cid wrote:   
      
   ...   
   >   
   >A veteran Toronto cop accused of assaulting and threatening family   
   >members has been ordered to surrender his service handgun as part of his   
   >bail conditions. The officer, who has been with the service for 28   
   >years, was released on bail yesterday. He returns to court May 25.   
   >   
   >Hamilton police had charged him with two counts of assault with a weapon   
   >and one count of threatening after a domestic incident at his Hamilton   
   >home Wednesday. He has been ordered to live with his sister in Hamilton   
   >who pledged $3,000 to secure his release and who will act as his surety   
   >to make sure he abides by the bail conditions.   
   >   
   What's left unreported is also quite interesting:   
      
   1. were all of his firearms licenses and permits automatically revoked   
   and confiscated?   
      
   2. were all the firearms in his home seized?   
      
   3. was all of the ammunition in his home seized?   
      
   Compare this to the experience of an acquaintance of mine, whose   
   estranged wife merely accused him of "pushing" her during an   
   (unwitnessed) argument.   
      
   This allegation evoked a raid on his house, during which all of his   
   firearms and all of his ammunition were seized. His firearm license   
   was subsequently revoked.   
      
   The wife very shortly thereafter withdrew her accusation of assault,   
   and no charges were ever laid, but the firearms and ammunition could   
   not be returned, as the (briefly) accused had no FAC/PAL anymore.   
      
   He spent several thousand dollars in legal fees and a year or two   
   (during which he couldn't hunt) recovering his license to possess   
   firearms. And when he asked the officer who led the raid to return the   
   several hundred dollars worth of seized ammunition, she told him that   
   it was destroyed, as the detachment couldn't store such materials.   
      
   I'm told that the officer in question, a former next-door neighbour of   
   mine, subsequently accepted an instructor's position at the R.C.M.P.'s   
   national training base in Regina, Saskatchewan.   
   --   
      
   Achim   
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