FFL Alert from ATF - Beech Grove FFL Burglarized

[Sigblitz]

Yes, we knew. Maybe in a news link.

Post 22

 

[KellyinAvon]

Yes, we knew. Maybe in a news link.

Post 22

Missed that one. I'd heard "stolen SUV", not carjacked.

 

[KellyinAvon]

Carjack a vehicle to facilitate a smash and grab of firearms and they were out in 40 seconds. Doesn't seem like a spur of the moment decision.

Might see more of these with the pipeline of guns from the shipping company got shut off.

 

[WebSnyper]

Is it just me, or did they just kind of throw "carjacking" out there like we knew there was a carjacking? Did I miss something?

The Beech Grove Police Department confirmed that a 16-year-old juvenile has been arrested and charged in connection to the carjacking. The burglary investigation remains ongoing.

ATF investigating break-in at Beech Grove gun shop

UPDATE (dated May 3): The ATF said the “majority” of firearms has been recovered. BEECH GROVE, Ind. — Beech Grove police have partnered with IMPD and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacc…

fox59.com

Throw a bunch of charges at him and get him to flip on his buddies.

 

[williamsburg]

Fox 59 reports 16 yr old arrested for car theft of the ramming vehicle but no news about burglars.

So is it a safe assumption that with the quick arrest that they found fingerprints and those fingerprints were already on file?

 

[SmokingTrigger]

Sucks for BGF, I have purchased several firearms from them and hope they re open soon.

 

[Sigblitz]

Throw a bunch of charges at him and get him to flip on his buddies.

It's possible he doesn't know them and they jumped on 65 and headed north.

 

[Sigblitz]

Might see more of these with the pipeline of guns from the shipping company got shut off.

Hense 'Please ensure the security of both your inventory and property and report all suspicious persons or activity to your local police department.'

 

[Sigblitz]

You never know. Just have to make it not worth the effort.

 

[WebSnyper]

It's possible he doesn't know them and they jumped on 65 and headed north.

Then he might end up doing some time. That would just be too bad...

Beech Grove has their own prosecutor and not covered by Mears I assume? If not, then forget what I said about him doing any time.

 

[Sigblitz]

Post 22, yesterday. I doubt he was picked up in Beech Grove.

'We do know that the SUV used in the break-in was carjacked less than an hour earlier, from a couple at a mobile home park near Washington Street and Shadeland Avenue on the east side of Indianapolis.
A police report shows officers arrested a 16-year-old boy for armed robbery in connection with the carjacking.'

 

[Sigblitz]

If he was in on the robbery, that's a huge plus. He knows the players. I don't think this is 16 year olds though. I remember a couple other ram and grabs of stores, I think one was shoes. Was one of them female also? Could be local.

 

[DadSmith]

You don't get into trouble for unknowingly buying a hot item. Picture or no picture, you don't get your money back.

Now hold on here just a second. If it's a semi-auto you can strip it down to the serial number part and turn it in as that according to the ATF is the firearm, and you can recuperate some of your loss.

 

[KellyinAvon]

Update:

INDIANAPOLIS — At 3:11 a.m. Sunday, a trio of thieves in command of a carjacked SUV battered the front door of Beech Grove Firearms in the 3000 block of South Emerson Avenue, breeching a roll-down steel door, entering the store, smashing two glass display cases and escaping 40 seconds later with four dozen revolvers and 9-millimeter semi-automatic pistols in what the owner, a veteran police officer, said was no fly-by-night raid.

Police search for thieves, missing firearms after smash-n-grab at Beech Grove gun store

The store owner said his staff are conducting an inventory of the stolen guns and checking surveillance videos to determine if the thieves had ever visited the store before.

fox59.com

 

[TheGrumpyGuy]

Just curious, is the new police station located just a block or two south of BGF open yet? If so, then these ************'s were bold

 

[ratames]

I can think of four times the smash and grab has been used.

Indy
Law Guns (LE Guns) on Shelby. (now long gone)
Indy Trading Post (closed down)
500 Guns.

Not Indy.
Some place up north, HILLSIDE.
The bangers made off with a 50 cal sans bolt there.

I had forgotten about the incident at 500 Guns. Then there was the incident at Don's in Greenwood in '97 when the thieves killed the staff and emptied the place.

 

[Frank_N_Stein]

At first I thought the perps weren't boomers because they left the 1911s but now I wonder since they took all the revolvers

Revolvers don't leave shell casings at murder scenes.

 

[Frank_N_Stein]

Then he might end up doing some time. That would just be too bad...

Beech Grove has their own prosecutor and not covered by Mears I assume? If not, then forget what I said about him doing any time.

No, Mears is the criminal prosecutor for the whole county and all independent cities within it. I believe BG has a city court that deals with traffic tickets and civil issues.

 

[NyleRN]

Revolvers don't leave shell casings at murder scenes.

True. Although I meant for my post to be strictly for humor and not analytical

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Apparently they recovered a "large number" of the stolen guns in a duffel bag in a house on the east side (shocker!). The guns still had BGF price tags on them. Just heard the story on WTHR but don't see it on their website.