A childhood friend of mine worked for a GPS car tracking company.
His father being a senior VP got him the job as fathers do from time to time.
My friend had moved into his own place but his step brothers were still at home raising hell. The father finds a .25 auto in one of the kids (17) room. He berates the kid (punk troublemaker runs with bad crowd) and locks the little pistol in the center console of his corvette.
My friend is in charge of testing new GPS tracking units and installs one into dads corvette and takes it for a test drive
so the base station can monitor and talk to him on the hands free carphone.
He gets pulled over for having no front license plate (texas state law) although corvettes have no place to put a front plate the cops need revenue. Turns out my friend has an unpaid traffic ticket which has turned into a warrant. (stupid stupid stupid)
The cop was about to let him go with a stern warning to go pay the ticket but since there was a warrant he decided to search the car. He finds the loaded .25 All this time my friends co-workers
are listening to the whole thing on the cars phone.
My friend did not know there was a gun in the car.
Guess what? The gun is stolen..
You know what else? The gun was stolen from a cop.
My friend is in jail, his dad comes by and pays the ticket.
The DA decides to let the gun charge stay "at large" to give my friend a break in the chance that the prosecutor will let it go.
9 months go by with no word.
My friend goes to renew his drivers license and is arrested my DPS
on the spot in the license office.
He is jailed for the felony stolen gun charge.
He gets a lawyer and finds out the prosecutor is going full bore on the gun charge.
There were sworn affidavits that car was not his and a letter from the step brother saying he was the one who bought the stolen gun.
My friends lawyer advises him to take a plea, 400 hours community service a $1500 fine and deferred adjudication.
Not wanting to go to trial and possibly go to prison he took the deal.
I guess there is a moral to this story. Pay your tickets, don't assume there are no guns or contraband in a borrowed car and
keep a good lawyer on retainer.
His father being a senior VP got him the job as fathers do from time to time.
My friend had moved into his own place but his step brothers were still at home raising hell. The father finds a .25 auto in one of the kids (17) room. He berates the kid (punk troublemaker runs with bad crowd) and locks the little pistol in the center console of his corvette.
My friend is in charge of testing new GPS tracking units and installs one into dads corvette and takes it for a test drive
so the base station can monitor and talk to him on the hands free carphone.
He gets pulled over for having no front license plate (texas state law) although corvettes have no place to put a front plate the cops need revenue. Turns out my friend has an unpaid traffic ticket which has turned into a warrant. (stupid stupid stupid)
The cop was about to let him go with a stern warning to go pay the ticket but since there was a warrant he decided to search the car. He finds the loaded .25 All this time my friends co-workers
are listening to the whole thing on the cars phone.
My friend did not know there was a gun in the car.
Guess what? The gun is stolen..
You know what else? The gun was stolen from a cop.
My friend is in jail, his dad comes by and pays the ticket.
The DA decides to let the gun charge stay "at large" to give my friend a break in the chance that the prosecutor will let it go.
9 months go by with no word.
My friend goes to renew his drivers license and is arrested my DPS
on the spot in the license office.
He is jailed for the felony stolen gun charge.
He gets a lawyer and finds out the prosecutor is going full bore on the gun charge.
There were sworn affidavits that car was not his and a letter from the step brother saying he was the one who bought the stolen gun.
My friends lawyer advises him to take a plea, 400 hours community service a $1500 fine and deferred adjudication.
Not wanting to go to trial and possibly go to prison he took the deal.
I guess there is a moral to this story. Pay your tickets, don't assume there are no guns or contraband in a borrowed car and
keep a good lawyer on retainer.