Posted on 01/26/2006 2:14:15 PM PST by vrwc0915
Fairfax County's police chief said yesterday that one of his officers accidentally shot and killed an optometrist outside the unarmed man's townhouse Tuesday night as an undercover detective was about to arrest him on suspicion of gambling on sports.
Police had been secretly making bets with Salvatore J. Culosi Jr., 37, since October as part of a gambling investigation, according to court records. They planned to search his home in the Fair Oaks area, just off Lee Highway, shortly after 9:30 p.m Culosi came out of his townhouse on Cavalier Landing Court about 9:35 p.m. and was standing next to the detective's sport-utility vehicle, police said, when the detective gave a signal to tactical officers assembled nearby to move in and arrest Culosi.
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that doesnt suprise me i ve been warning people on here thats the route we were heading since 1999 but i was just a paranoid liberaldopertarian that needed to put down the bong and get back to reality cause that kind of stuff would never happen in a free country
The optometristicide started out as a document search.
I used to joke that one day she would bring the SWAT team down on us. I was prescient - that would apparently not be a joke these days.
Due to your thoughtcrime and membership in a paramilitary org (FR) They will for sure do the no knock routine on you
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