Deerjager
Old Mossy Horns
Back in 2017 I had a pistol stolen from the center console of my locked car in my driveway. My car was not the only one in the neighborhood that was burglarized and there was at least one other hand gun stolen. 2 deputies & a detective came to the house, report filed and then radio silence.
The gun was an Astra A75 9mm. Not a popular, expensive or oft spoken of firearm. I still had the box and a mag I kept after the gun was stolen. It is a small, single stack, metal frame pistol with a de-cocker. I loved it since it was built like a tank & had digested every handload & fed it with zero issues, even the hotter loads.
Fast forward to 2023, I got a call from a county detective the gun was recently returned & 3 weeks ago I picked it up from the forensics lab.
The gun was still in the evidence bag with the perps name, arresting officer, charges and the recovery date. The gun was stolen in 2017 & recovered 8 months later in 2018. Here is where it gets interesting, it was recovered in Cleveland county in the possession of a felon. It took until the end of March ‘23 for the court case to end and the stolen property to be released from evidence.
The first indication that the Rutherford county even knew the firearm had been recovered was the phone call they received to come pick up the 2 stolen firearms. Cleveland county is the next county east of mine and NEVER contacted the RCSD to let them know it was recovered. This is the details as provided by the detective, I see no reason on his part to tell anything other than the facts.
I find that rather slack & disappointing, considering all the gun control BS being used to crush our rights. I mean, how hard is to lift a phone and call the neighboring county with news on a recovered firearm? It took almost 6 years from the theft to get it back & almost 5 years it sat in evidence w/o the neighboring LEO department knowing it was recovered and the felon to be processed through our so called justice system.
I did not get back my custom made leather holster it was in when stolen, but it did have 3 of the eight Hydra-Shoks that were in it. I am thrilled to get back my stout little pistol. I ordered some factory new magazines and spent a few hours getting the rust off it from sitting in a plastic bag in an evidence lock up.
The gun was an Astra A75 9mm. Not a popular, expensive or oft spoken of firearm. I still had the box and a mag I kept after the gun was stolen. It is a small, single stack, metal frame pistol with a de-cocker. I loved it since it was built like a tank & had digested every handload & fed it with zero issues, even the hotter loads.
Fast forward to 2023, I got a call from a county detective the gun was recently returned & 3 weeks ago I picked it up from the forensics lab.
The gun was still in the evidence bag with the perps name, arresting officer, charges and the recovery date. The gun was stolen in 2017 & recovered 8 months later in 2018. Here is where it gets interesting, it was recovered in Cleveland county in the possession of a felon. It took until the end of March ‘23 for the court case to end and the stolen property to be released from evidence.
The first indication that the Rutherford county even knew the firearm had been recovered was the phone call they received to come pick up the 2 stolen firearms. Cleveland county is the next county east of mine and NEVER contacted the RCSD to let them know it was recovered. This is the details as provided by the detective, I see no reason on his part to tell anything other than the facts.
I find that rather slack & disappointing, considering all the gun control BS being used to crush our rights. I mean, how hard is to lift a phone and call the neighboring county with news on a recovered firearm? It took almost 6 years from the theft to get it back & almost 5 years it sat in evidence w/o the neighboring LEO department knowing it was recovered and the felon to be processed through our so called justice system.
I did not get back my custom made leather holster it was in when stolen, but it did have 3 of the eight Hydra-Shoks that were in it. I am thrilled to get back my stout little pistol. I ordered some factory new magazines and spent a few hours getting the rust off it from sitting in a plastic bag in an evidence lock up.
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