Police with machine guns update
A while back, I wrote about some Illinois police officers with illegal guns and how the police were like you and me only better. Well, one of the guys plead guilty:
Illinois State Police trooper Gregory Mugge pleaded guilty to one charge of possessing an unregistered machine gun in federal court on Tuesday, according to an announcement from the U.S. attorney’s office.
Mugge, 52, of Jerseyville, was indicted in January, along with Illinois State Police Sgt. James Vest, 39, of O’Fallon, and John Yard, 36, an Illinois State Police special agent assigned to the Collinsville office, each face separate charges of illegal gun possession.
Mugge faces up to 10 years in prison, a fine of up to $250,000 and a maximum three years of supervised release.
His sentencing is in October. Twelve local police chiefs and sheriffs, and two state senators asked to give him administrative punishment instead of prosecution. I doubt they’d extend such a courtesy to me or you.
August 31st, 2006 at 8:40 am
[…] Constitutional rights are apparently tricky and complex, if the defendent is a police officer. A while back, I noted a case where some Illinois police officers were charged with illegal possession of machine guns. Here’s the latest: Charges that an Illinois State Police sergeant illegally possessed a machine gun were dismissed Wednesday by a federal judge, who ruled that the law was “unconstitutionally vague” as applied to him. […]