BATFE sting in Bloomington

[remauto1187]

Anyone heard anything about this: Sting Operation in Blmtn Thursday - handgun sale

"This may have already been posted and if so, still worth repeating. Undercover agent posing as a buyer informed seller he was a convicted felon. Seller sold him the handgun anyway and was arrested for prohibited gun sale."

Thats gonna hurt!

 

[hoosierdoc]

You'll excuse me if I don't believe this based on the source.

 

[Mike Grasso]

Link doesn't work, no other news stories....

 

[femurphy77]

You'll excuse me if I don't believe this based on the source.

Hoosier Topics, meh!

 

[williamnewman1]

Im very curious as well. I would assume there would be a news story somewhere if it were indeed true .

 

[Mr. Habib]

There is a news story. This was in the the Saturday Bloomington HT. According to BPD, Jeremy Eugene Breeden, 22, 9699 W. Carter Road, was arrested Thursday by Bloomington police and charged with prohibited sale or transfer of a handgun. The police alleged that he sold a 40 cal handgun to a CI who was posing as a convicted felon. No mention of the BATFE, however.

 

[remauto1187]

There is a news story. This was in the the Saturday Bloomington HT. According to BPD, Jeremy Eugene Breeden, 22, 9699 W. Carter Road, was arrested Thursday by Bloomington police and charged with prohibited sale or transfer of a handgun. The police alleged that he sold a 40 cal handgun to a CI who was posing as a convicted felon. No mention of the BATFE, however.

Ahh so the cops set him up. He was dumb arse for even playing that game. There goes that LTCH.....bye bye

 

[CathyInBlue]

Assuming a private seller chose to be proactive, how would a gun seller take a person's bonafides and feed them to the NICS? I know that I have no idea how to phone up NICS and run someone through their intestines for a yay/nay declaration. I'd assume they have some kind of seller registration system like most websites, and without a NICS user ID code, they wouldn't even take the call. This remotely accurate?

And this Jerry Breeden's screwed. It doesn't take any great character to tell someone who says they're a convicted felon that you're not gonna sell them a gun, and he didn't even have that much character.

 

[jmiller676]

Since I am not able to read this story...did the CI claim to be a "convicted felon".

On a side note, I don't even know how we can charge people with the intent to sell to a convicted felon when the guy is not actually a convicted felon. I know there are laws but, this is stoooopid.

 

[hoosierdoc]

There is a news story. This was in the the Saturday Bloomington HT. According to BPD, Jeremy Eugene Breeden, 22, 9699 W. Carter Road, was arrested Thursday by Bloomington police and charged with prohibited sale or transfer of a handgun. The police alleged that he sold a 40 cal handgun to a CI who was posing as a convicted felon. No mention of the BATFE, however.

Did it say how "buyer" and seller were put in contact with each other?

 

[GlockRock]

There is a news story. This was in the the Saturday Bloomington HT. According to BPD, Jeremy Eugene Breeden, 22, 9699 W. Carter Road, was arrested Thursday by Bloomington police and charged with prohibited sale or transfer of a handgun. The police alleged that he sold a 40 cal handgun to a CI who was posing as a convicted felon. No mention of the BATFE, however.

The article doesn't say the buyer was "posing" to be a convicted felon it said that the CI told Breeden he was a convicted felon.

 

[Mr. Habib]

Did it say how "buyer" and seller were put in contact with each other?

No, it doesn't. However, the seller was held for a probation violation. My guess is that they may have known each other "professionally", but that's just a guess.

 

[GlockRock]

Here's the short story that was in the Herald Times. It was found in the Police News.

PROHIBITED GUN SALE
• 1:30 p.m. Thursday, police were called to a report of a man sleeping in a laundry room at Canterbury Apartments. Police had been investigating this man after he allegedly sold a .40-caliber handgun to a confidential informant, who said he was a convicted felon, in October 2013, according to Bloomington police Sgt. Joe Crider. Jeremy Eugene Breeden, 22, 9699 W. Carter Road, was arrested Thursday by Bloomington police on a preliminary charge of prohibited sale or transfer to of a firearm to a convicted felon. He was booked into Monroe County Jail at 2:04 p.m. Bond set at $10,000 surety, $500 cash, but is on a hold for probation.

 

[Mike Grasso]

Looks like someone who needed to be taken off the street, was.

 

[remauto1187]

The buyer...which was a convicted felon (CI), Im sure was arrested for possessing a firearm, right? Dont believe there is anything in Indiana code that says its ok to possess a firearm and be a felon even though you are a CI for the Police. Surely the police didnt give this felon permission to possess a firearm (they dont have the authority to even do that).

 

[Mike Grasso]

On the contrary, while involved in a lawfully sanctioned "sting" operation otherwise "illegal" activity can be engaged in while under supervision.
I.E... Narcotics buys, Firearms buys and the like.

 

[Fargo]

Sumpthin is missing here. Last I checked, Indiana doesn't prevent non-SVF felons from possessing firearms. Either BPD did this under federal law, or he claimed to be SVF.