{"id":7750,"date":"2010-01-08T14:17:24","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T19:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7750"},"modified":"2010-01-08T14:17:24","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T19:17:24","slug":"just-as-every-cop-is-a-criminal-and-all-the-sinners-saints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7750","title":{"rendered":"Just As Every Cop Is A Criminal, And All The Sinners Saints"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s hope 2010 is a better year for local law-enforcement than last year.<\/p>\n

Although the Minneapolis PD seems to be off to a rocky start<\/a>; an MPD SWAT officer has been arrested as a suspect in a long string of robberies around the metro:<\/p>\n

Minneapolis police officer Timothy Edward Carson’s shift on Wednesday started at 9 a.m. But he wasn’t there.<\/p>\n

By the time he told a supervisor he was running late at 9:30, the FBI says, Carson had robbed an Apple Valley bank and was well on his way to getting caught.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The bad news?\u00a0 Carson was one of the cops that the MPD gives the big guns to, to go after the toughest and most dangerous perps.<\/p>\n

The good news?\u00a0 He might not be the brightest alleged bank robber we’ve run into:<\/p>\n

The criminal complaint outlining the bank robbery charge against Carson shows that the trail of clues leading to his arrest began minutes before he allegedly robbed the Wells Fargo Bank on Pilot Knob Road.<\/p>\n

At 8:37 a.m., Apple Valley police officer Kurt Schultz pulled over Carson’s white Mitsubishi Galant because it lacked a front license plate. Carson identified himself as a Minneapolis police officer and was allowed to go on his way.<\/p>\n

At 9:17 a.m., Schultz was called to the bank on the robbery report. A minute earlier, a man in a black jacket and ski mask had robbed the bank. Armed with a handgun, he had ordered the tellers to give him money, which he put in a backpack, before fleeing to a light-colored vehicle parked outside.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So he (allegedly) gets pulled over, plays the Thin Blue Get Out Of A Ticket Free card, and then robs a bank in the same jurisdiction <\/em>not a few minutes later?<\/p>\n

In the meantime, the Feds are taking the Gang Strike Force case to a grand jury<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A federal grand jury will hear evidence on the Strike Force in February, according to two sources familiar with the investigation. The evidence is expected to include testimony from former Strike Force police.<\/p>\n

Former members of the Strike Force have been approached by federal investigators to provide information about wrongdoing in exchange for leniency, sources said.<\/p>\n

The investigation timetable is not clear.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s to a better 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let’s hope 2010 is a better year for local law-enforcement than last year. Although the Minneapolis PD seems to be off to a rocky start; an MPD SWAT officer has been arrested as a suspect in a long string of robberies around the metro: Minneapolis police officer Timothy Edward Carson’s shift on Wednesday started at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7751,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7750\/revisions\/7751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}