Arrest in cop killing (Pittsburgh State Trooper)

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | December 15, 2005 | Cindi Lash and Moustafa Ayad

[rightwingintelligentsia]

State police yesterday charged Leslie Mollett in the slaying of state police Cpl. Joseph Pokorny.

The arrest was announced last night by state police Maj. Frank Monaco at a news conference at county police headquarters in Point Breeze.

Maj. Monaco said Mr. Mollett, 30, a recent state prison parolee, would be charged with criminal homicide, theft by taking, resisting arrest, attempting to elude police and firearms violations. Cpl. Pokorny, a 22-year state police veteran, was shot to death early Monday near the Extended StayAmerica hotel in Carnegie.

[babydoll22]

I hope they tookie him.

[Pharmboy]

Mr. Mollett

Mr. Mollett, who has listed previous addresses in St. Clair Village, Wilkinsburg and Greensburg, has an arrest record dating to 1996. He was released last month from the prison in Fayette County, where he'd been held since July 2004 after pleading guilty to charges of possession and possession with intent to deliver drugs and conspiracy in two separate cases.

In one case, city police arrested Mr. Mollett on Dec. 30, 2002, in the bedroom of his Fisher Street apartment with 75 packets of heroin and $650. Five months earlier, he was arrested on Aug. 2, after he was found riding in a car with two other men, 160 bags of heroin and seven bags of marijuana.

He was sentenced by Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Donald Machen to 2 to 4 years in prison.

Mr. Mollett, who sometimes goes by the alias Torrence Carter, also has been arrested for drug possession, fleeing and eluding police, reckless endangerment and numerous traffic violations. He pleaded guilty each time and was sentenced to probation.

[from occupied ga]

Maj. Monaco said Mr. Mollett, 30, a recent state prison parolee, would be charged with criminal homicide, theft by taking, resisting arrest, attempting to elude police and firearms violations.

This makes it obvious to all citizens of NY and MA that more gun control is needed. What we need is a law that makes it illegal for felons to violate the law that prevents them from possessing firearms, or maybe the good people of NY and MA think that we should just disarm more law abiding people.

I know bimbo Maura Hennigan of Boston will think this way. I know that the morons of Boston have elected her for the last 20+ years. Total idiots.

[Riptides]

Doesn't he have a cute name like "Tookie"?

[DocH]

I wonder if MR. Mollet will write childrens books in prison?

[Heatseeker]

Given this is the state where convicted cop-killer Mumia has lived a long life of luxury on death row, I rather doubt it.

[cjshapi]

It's just a shame he didn't resist arrest harder. Or there wasn't an accident on the way to jail. Scum like this doesn't deserve 3 squares a day and free healthcare at the taxpayers expense.

[USS Alaska]

Something is wrong about this shooting. I heard that he killed the cop using the cop's gun. If that is true, the trooper did something very wrong. There is no way, at 2:30 am, a potential perp should ever get close enough to get your gun. I only heard it one time, so I'm not sure it's true.

[RGSpincich]

What we need is a law that makes it illegal for felons to violate the law that prevents them from possessing firearms,

Some FReepers think that felons should have their voting rights and their firearm rights reinstated after they do their prison time. Some propose a waiting period for firearm rights. I'd rather let lifetime sanctions on a felon's rights serve as a deterrent to others.

[tiger-one]

Isn't parole a wonderful gift to the bad guys

[from occupied ga]

Some FReepers think that felons should have their voting rights and their firearm rights reinstated after they do their prison time

This dirt bag was out on parole and hadn't "done his time" (although why he was on parole is another problem) You'll notice that not having any legal rights to a firearm didn't seem to prevent his having one thus giving yet another example of why gun control laws work so well.

[Tribune7]

ping

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Given this is the state where convicted cop-killer Mumia has lived a long life of luxury on death row, I rather doubt it.

Let's hope that's not the case here. Allegheny County jurors are not shy about handing out the death penalty; though I understand actually putting someone to death in the state is another matter. With any luck, the police will build an air-tight case and this won't become another liberal cause celebre.

[yer gonna put yer eye out]

"Isn't parole a wonderful gift to the bad guys"


I've got a fix for this parole parade...
Every parolee gets to bunk down at the homes of the parole board members for the remainder of their sentence...no charge.

If they seem to adjust to society within the remaining time on their sentence, then they get to stay permanently.

[DocH]

Something is wrong about this shooting. I heard that he killed the cop using the cop's gun.

Unfortunately, I believe these type of shootings (cops shot with their own weapons) happens all to often, despite the retention training that most departments provide.

Also, instead of putting scumbags like this "Tookie"-wannabe in prison and throwing away the key, or at least making these animals do hard labor while there - they get to do their own form of criminal training behind bars (of which I'm sure "How to kill a cop 101" is a class), and then they (liberal lawyers & judges) release them out into society again.

And to top it off, gun-grabbers, like the Brady Bunch, will include this shooting in their stacked/fabricated "statistics" on the number of people and/or cops shot with so-called "assault weapons".

Why a handgun, such as the Glock this officer was probably carrying, is considered an "assault weapon" (even with a "hi-cap" magazine) by these antigun goofballs is DISGUSTING, but at the same time, LAUGHABLE.

[thefactor]

too bad he didnt distribute the drugs in NYS. with the Rockefeller drugs laws, he might have been behind bars. perhaps.

[Ciexyz]

The perp is in for a world of hurt.

[Ciexyz]

Ghost writer wanted, to assist prison inmate in writing kiddie books on dangers of gang life and drug dealing. Long-term project: for as long as accused sits on death row.