An arresting offer: guns for freedom

[Harry Tuttle]

An arresting offer: guns for freedom
By Ryan Davis
Sun Staff
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/lo...oct25,1,3365563.story?coll=bal-home-headlines

October 25, 2004

Two police officers dropped the handcuffed man on the brick steps before Sheila Harding's front door, she says.

From his knees, 23-year-old Richard William Rogers Jr. pleaded to the woman who helped raise him. "They're locking me up," he remembers saying. "But if you give them a gun, they'll let me go."

It was a startling proposition, Harding says: Trade a gun to avoid a criminal charge.

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