The Secret Service Basically Just Giving Guns Away Now
This holiday season, one lucky D.C. thief nabbed him or herself a Secret Service starter pack, complete with a gun, badge, radio, handcuffs and flash drive. It’s a Christmas miracle, in that our president is still alive.
According to CNN the items were stolen “in broad daylight” out of the agent’s personal vehicle, if you can believe it:
A report filed with the Metropolitan Police Department several hours later describes the agent returning to his car and noticing the back rear window of his car had been “unzipped.” The report says the agent noticed “a bag with the listed property was taken out of the vehicle.”
The report lists a black Sig Sauer handgun, an APX6000 radio, handcuffs, a USB flash drive, a black Patagonia bag and a Secret Service badge, number 1266, as the stolen items.
CNN reports other Secret Service employees “expressed surprise that such a crime could take place so close to the law enforcement agency’s headquarters in the middle of the afternoon,” though I’d argue the surprising thing is it didn’t happen sooner.
