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Dozens of guns allegedly stolen in Mississippi cargo theft

Police in Mississippi are investigating an alleged cargo theft of approximately 67 firearms and an undetermined amount of ammunition.

According to a press release from the Olive Branch, Miss., Police Department, a truck arrived at Academy Sports in Olive Branch at approximately 10 p.m. Sunday, May 7 for a Monday morning delivery.


Police say at approximately 6 a.m. Monday, May 8, when the truck driver was preparing to unload, Academy employees noticed the seal on the trailer had been cut and the trailer had allegedly been broken into.

The release says all but six of the guns missing from the shipment were handguns.

In such situations, is it prudent to publish make, model and serial numbers of the stolen firearms?

Seems to me that it would serve to help to some degree, the interception and or recovery of some of them.

Or is it unlikely that it would make any difference?

Could this be a bad thing for yet identified reasons?

And why would someone park a truck shipment of firearms at a closed firearms business unattended and overnight?

Say, let's park a truck full of cash outside the bank overnight...

Yeah those plastic serialized seals are a real deterrent

How about requiring heavy duty padlocks on the trailer doors,there is already room to put them beside the plastic seal.

The driver could have been asleep in the sleeper when the theft occurred, and never heard the door eased open on the trailer.

Some truck security camera systems have 7 cameras. If all firearm delivery trucks had them, it would help catch a few thieves, and keep guns from thugs.

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And why would someone park a truck shipment of firearms at a closed firearms business unattended and overnight?

I would be willing to bet that this is not the full story. I cannot believe that there is not surveillance video coverage of this event somewhere. I am guessing this was an inside job. Olive Branch is not the south side of Chicago where gangs stole a bunch of firearms from parked train cars.

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
Olive Branch is not the south side of Chicago where gangs stole a bunch of firearms from parked train cars.

Maybe not Chicago, but for all practical purposes, Olive Branch is the south side of Memphis

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Chamber of Commerce says it is quiet, I guess some of the "excitement of the city is coming to Olive Branch."

In researching this further, it seems as if this has happened at another Academy in the recent past. Most Academy stores have stockers in the store all night long. In the past the workers have been pretty much locked in the store for security reasons. This was clearly well planned and executed with some inside help.

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Originally posted by sigmonkey:

And why would someone park a truck shipment of firearms at a closed firearms business unattended and overnight?

Say, let's park a truck full of cash outside the bank overnight...

Truck drivers can only drive so many hours straight then need to rest for so many hours, then can drive for so many hours before resting so many hours. He was probably driving from somewhere far away and got there too late to unload so slept in the truck to catch up on his sleeping hours so once unloaded the next morning he could drive a full 10 hours or whatever the legal mandate is.

Not a truck load.

Olive Branch: This Is NOT GOOD -- At All!

67 guns stolen from delivery truck behind Academy Sports store Too close to me ... hopefully, the thieves will be caught and firearms/ammo recovered ASAP.

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Originally posted by jimmy123x:

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Originally posted by sigmonkey:

And why would someone park a truck shipment of firearms at a closed firearms business unattended and overnight?

Say, let's park a truck full of cash outside the bank overnight...

Truck drivers can only drive so many hours straight then need to rest for so many hours, then can drive for so many hours before resting so many hours. He was probably driving from somewhere far away and got there too late to unload so slept in the truck to catch up on his sleeping hours so once unloaded the next morning he could drive a full 10 hours or whatever the legal mandate is.

Then you (or the shipper company) makes arrangement for the delivery.

I could give two shits about a load of diamonds or furs, or Hot Krispie Kremes being boosted, but firearms have a different potential.

Responsibility is to a great degree on the people in the "supply chain".

The military makes one very cognasant on day zero about custodial responsibility and repurcussions for lack of due dilligence.

Yeah. These incidents piss me off.

This Academy is in a very nice area on a busy main road. Not at all what you'd equate to South Memphis.

Just shopped in there a couple weeks ago. NO WAY they didn't see something on surveillance, this is a less-than-a-year-old store. Had to be someone getting tipped off.

MississippiGal is having a sale........

Ha Ha. None here .



Scary stuff there.
Hope theu catch them ... REALLY SOON!
Donna

The latest update is that there is video of the event and there is more than one person involved. {Yeah that is pretty obvious}. What is interesting to me is that an Academy in Texas had a similar incident several years ago.

Another story follows of inside attempt at Academy in Georgia:

Here’s what happened, according to their plea agreements:

A night supervisor at the Academy warehouse spotted Allen, Dinkins and Milner standing beside a rack of kayaks on Aug. 15, 2013, far from their assigned work area.

The men, who worked in the dock area, were supposed to be on break, also in a place far from where they were found.

The supervisor saw Milner kneeling down by the kayaks and digging something out. He also saw Dinkins stuffing something into his pants.

After moving closer, the supervisor saw Milner holding the barrel of an assault weapon.

The supervisor asked what the men were doing, and Dinkins began to unload his pants. Rifle parts were found on Milner and Dinkins.

THE SUPERVISOR ASKED WHAT THE MEN WERE DOING, AND DINKINS BEGAN TO UNLOAD HIS PANTS. ACCORDING TO PLEA AGREEMENTS

An internal Academy investigation later revealed another rifle underneath a shelf, appearing to have been discarded.

The rifles were shipped to the warehouse in one piece, stored in a hard plastic gun case inside a cardboard box.

Six crushed gun cases were found in the trash compactor near where the men were spotted.

Allen later told authorities he took a rifle to his sister’s apartment in Macon and hid it underneath a mattress. The gun wasn’t there when police went to find it.

He later admitted he had found two Rossi revolvers in a box on the receiving dock after they were delivered Aug. 14, 2013, and that he and Milner hid the guns in their clothes and walked out of the warehouse after their shift ended.

On another occasion, Allen said he found a shipment of five Sig 9mm pistols on a pallet that should have been locked in the gun cage. After he, Miller and Dinkins took the guns out of their boxes, Allen took the cases and crushed them in the trash compactor and walked out with the guns hidden in the waistband of his clothes when he left for the day.

On the day before they were caught, Allen and Milner broke down six rifles into two pieces each. They used instructions they saw on YouTube. The men hid a rifle in their pants and walked out of the warehouse at the end of their shift.

Dinkins said he put the guns in the boats where they were later found and that he put the cases in the trash compactor.

The men were in the process of hiding the remaining guns in their clothes when they were caught Aug. 15, 2013.

Dinkins said he put the rifle he’d stolen, and a pistol he claimed he found in Macon, into a trash bin behind his Warner Robins apartment complex. Warner Robins police found a rifle in the trash bin, a Sig Sauer pistol and several ammunition magazines. Records show both guns were shipped to the Academy distribution center in July and August 2013, but were never received by the firearms cage.

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Originally posted by sigmonkey:
In such situations, is it prudent to publish make, model and serial numbers of the stolen firearms?

Seems to me that it would serve to help to some degree, the interception and or recovery of some of them.

Or is it unlikely that it would make any difference?

Not gonna help. These kinda things are sold on the black market by people who know they are stolen, sold to people who know they were stolen.

If you sell stolen shit to honest people they tend to do everything in their power to find the seller. Which is not good for the seller.