Posted on 09/03/2025 1:14:14 PM PDT by Mark
WARREN, Mich. — A handgun reported stolen from a New York police station nearly 50 years ago was recovered from a motorist’s underwear during a routine traffic stop in Warren, according to Michigan State Police.
Troopers spotted a driver making an improper turn on to a residential street near Dequindre and Eight Mile roads just after midnight on Aug. 27. The driver accelerated to 45 mph in a 25-mph zone, police said.
After stopping the driver, he displayed “numerous signs” of intoxication before admitting he had consumed alcohol, troopers said. He was given a field sobriety test which showed multiple clues of impairment.
“When taking the suspect into custody, during handcuffing, he resisted arrest and attempted to break free and run,” troopers said in a news release.
They tackled the fleeing motorist and briefly struggled with him on the ground police added.
During the fight, the suspect attempted to pull a handgun from his underwear. Troopers were able to wrestle the weapon away from the suspect without injury.
The gun turned out to have been stolen from the Syracuse Police Department in New York in 1979. The unnamed suspect was transported to the Macomb County Jail pending prosecutor’s office review.
He’s lucky he didn’t get shot.
Did the article describe what type of firearm? Or is that too much to ask. Revolver maybe, in the 1970s?
I’m surprised he hadn’t changed his underwear or otherwise noticed the gun in 46 years.
“Excuse me while I whip this out...”
“stolen from the Syracuse Police Department”
Somewhere in NY a ninety year old property room officer can FINALLY retire knowing he won’t have to repay the department for the missing weapon.
Interesting the data is still on file and accessible. Apparently, the college I graduated from in 1979 no longer has a record that I was there. You upgrade from one computer to another and whoops, somebody scrapped the seven-track tape machine with all the old system’s records. Or maybe who graduated with what degree simply wasn’t important since it’s all about making money in the here and now.
I remember the hysteria whenever a cop’s gun was stolen. A gun store could lose hundreds of guns of all types, and it was on page five. But a cop? Pure hysteria.
“...from a motorist’s underwear during a routine traffic stop in Warren,...”
Routine?
Not so much, I hope....
“Apparently, the college I graduated from in 1979 no longer has a record that I was there. “
Even in the 60s, Even I knew that the Assist. Principals’s threat of a “Permanent Record” misdemeanor mark was bogus.
Even more lucky he didn’t shoot himself given how he was carrying the gun.
We had a situation where a civilian employee reached into a safe around 1980 and stole a revolver. He got away with it as we could not pin down where he secreted it after he left the office.
Years later, he was traveling with a bunch of bandits and got stopped outside of Reno. Low and behold, firearm recovered. Hats off to the NCIC as they ran the number and took him in. The reason no one knew before he got off duty was the culprit’s live in girlfriend blew him in because she did not want a firearm around her child.
Not only did the Enemedia reports I saw fail to identify the type of gun, but also any information on how it was stolen in the first place, and well as information on whether the drunk driver who was arrested was frisked before he tried to escape, was tackled, and then tried to pull a gun from his underwear.
Of course, the Enemedia reports also failed to identify the drunk driver with a stolen gun, but that only means they’ve identified the drunk driver with the stolen gun.
We can imagine all the great irons though...like maybe a Model 10 snubnose with a filed down hammer spur.
They didn’t name or describe the suspect
My Dad was a mechanist on the railroad - 60s to 80s. At the local bars, the railroad dicks (RR LEOs) would sell their stub nose 38s for a few dollars so they could keep drinking b4 starting their shift.
Always-I’ll pay you the next day.
Over The years Dad ended up w 7 or 8 handguns in his safe per Dad.
None of us 5 siblings ever found the guns 20 years later after Dad passed.
This is my weapon and this is my gun.
One is for.....
Walkin’ around with your underwear loaded was always a social negative.
Or Fire in the Hole! /s
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