Ravenwood - 06/28/05 07:45 AM
NBA Player Chris Wilcox was busted for illegal handgun possession. Police found a gun in his car during a traffic stop reports WBAL. He's facing misdemeanor gun possession and up to 3 years in jail.
According to charging documents, the officer asked Wilcox if he had been drinking. After briefly hesitating, the charging documents reveal Wilcox nervously answered, "Yes, I had one drink." Collins reported Wilcox passed a field sobriety check.The news blurb on the radio this afternoon said that the police used a "gun-sniffing dog". Given the amount of guns and ammo that have been in an out of my car over the years, the dog would almost always hit on my car. But then I live work and play in Virginia, where open carry is legal and concealed carry is accepted.Police said a K-9 team responded to the scene and the dog reacted to something in the car.
"The officer asked Mr. Wilcox whether there was something we need to know about in the car, and he indicated that he had a gun, and a search located the gun," Howard County police spokeswoman Sherry Llewellyn said.
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Seems to me that he maybe has learned his lesson and will now transfer to a school in a state that won't discriminate against his exertion of basic human rights.
Posted by: countertop at June 28, 2005 10:05 AMAw, the guy fell for it.
"My dog reacted, is there something I need to know about?" implying that confessing now is somehow to your benefit is the oldest trick in the book.
And since when do misdemeanors toss you into the clink for THREE YEARS?
Posted by: geekWithA.45 at June 29, 2005 9:52 AMNone of the articles I read said if the formal charges were misdemeanors or felonies. But I did look up the Maryland law covering the unlawful carry of concealed firearms, and it said it was considered a misdemeanor.
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