AnonymousSource: Santa Barbara Police Department
On July 21, 2020 at 6:50 A.M. Santa Barbara Police Department’s Street Crimes Unit responded to a parking lot in the 1400 Block of San Andres Street on a report of a man with a gun. The witness reported a male subject sleeping inside of a white Nissan Altima with a gun in his hand.
Officers arrived and conducted a high-risk contact. The sole occupant, 23-year-old Brandon Topete of Goleta, was detained without incident. Topete has previously affiliated with a criminal street gang in Goleta.
A search of the vehicle was performed. During this search, officers located a loaded semi-automatic .22 caliber Sig Sauer firearm. The magazine contained ten rounds.
A significant amount of additional evidence was located and linked to possible other crimes.
Topete was booked into the county jail on numerous felonies. Those include: possession of a loaded firearm in a vehicle, prior felon in possession of a firearm, other weapons charges, narcotics related charges, and gang enhancements.
No. This shows that even with the hundreds of gun laws, criminals will not follow them.
Wow. Are those the eyes of a stoner or what?
Don’t you folks ever get it? No one is a “criminal” until they violate the law. “Law abiding” people are thus immediately excused from the rules of a civil society because they have not as yet been discovered to be criminal. So as soon as a “criminal” is found with a gun he is outside the scope of the 2d Amendment and the remaining gun owners are excused from any culpability. We need to get guns off the streets and out of the community without regard to the classification of their status by “gun rights” apologists.
It would seem that all the gun laws can’t stop a criminal from getting a gun though they can stop a law abiding citizen.
Always interesting to watch the 2d Amendment extravagants face conflict on their views on crime and certain parts of the population. This guy was just sleeping with this gun which seems a basic American Right!!