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Monday, January 21, 2008
Ind. Courts - "Deputies say Porter courthouse bushes a weapons stash"
James D. Wolf Jr. of the Gary Post-Tribune reports:
VALPARAISO -- During a routine check of the bushes around the Porter County Courthouse last week, Cpl. Jackie Hrezo found a dirty pair of brass knuckles.She put them into the collection in the fourth-floor office, where she and other sheriff's deputies, who guard the courthouse, keep the weapons they either find on people coming into the courthouse or that people have stashed in the bushes around the building.
"I check every so often," Hrezo said about the bushes.
About eight years ago, she found a deteriorated gun in the bushes at the Portage courthouse, she said.
The officers' collection from 2007 includes a glass pipe, possibly used to smoke crack, that a maintenance person found under the bushes.
The brass knuckles could have been there for a while, exposed by the rains and thaws, Officer John Dobbins said. * * *
Most common in the bushes are the cell phones hidden around the courthouse.
People get dropped off, and cell phones aren't allowed in the court building because recording devices are illegal in court and there are stun guns and pistols disguised as phones now.
"The only trouble we have is people don't read the signs out there. They ask if they could just turn them off," Lt. Dennis Replin said.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on January 21, 2008 10:25 AM
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