02 May 2013

Another idiot for the day

It's why they call it 'felony stupid', and Dana DiFilippo has the story in the Philadelphia Daily News:

Police have arrested a Frankford man on gun and conspiracy charges, after he admitted he bought two handguns for someone else, an offense called straw purchasing.
William Santore, 24, of Jackson Street near Wakeling, told detectives he purchased a 9 mm Astra semiautomatic handgun and a .40-caliber Steyr semiautomatic handgun on 26 March at a city gun shop, for a man he identified only as Fat Cat, according to the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office.
Authorities discovered the illegal buy after police recovered one of the illicit guns when they arrested Jonathan Sanchez on 16 April in Frankford on burglary and gun charges. Sanchez is jailed on $150,000 bail, awaiting a 9 May preliminary hearing. The second illegally purchased gun has not been recovered.
Santore admitted he knows Sanchez, but denied that he bought the guns for him, according to the DA's office. Santore allegedly lied on the purchase paperwork by saying he was buying the handguns for himself and that he didn't use drugs.
"His falsifications put firearms on the street into the hands of dangerous criminals," Tasha Jamerson, a spokeswoman for the DA's office, said in a statement.
Santore was nabbed by the Gun Violence Task Force, a joint effort between the state Attorney General's office and the DA's office.
Rico says it's not only a crime, and stupid (and don't he look the part?), but they're the typical street-thug cheap-ass pistols that give criminals a bad name...

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