by Bob Walsh
Probation officers in Sacramento County rolled up two bad guys and got a fair amount of contraband off the streets recently.
David Hansen, 48, and Barton Sloan, 36, were arrested after searches of their residences. Between the two of them 6 pounds of meth, 4 pounds of heroin, 7 guns, a lot of ammo and a few thousand dollars in cash were seized.
One thing I have trouble understand is the newspaper article below specifies that the searches were done with warrants. I thought the whole idea of this supervised probation crap was the ability to do warrantless searches. In any event they were clearly doing something other than phone interviews and putting ankle bracelets on people, so good show.
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Two arrested after Sacramento County probation officers find guns, drugs, pipe bomb
By Vincent Moleski
The Sacramento Bee
November 8, 2019
Two men were arrested Thursday after a series of Sacramento County Probation Department searches yielded a handful of guns, hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of drugs and a pipe bomb.
In a news release, county officials said probation officers arrived at a home on Hackberry Lane to serve a search warrant to David Hansen, 48, who was on mandatory supervision from a previous drug possession conviction.
Officers searched his vehicle and found two pounds of methamphetamine, a quarter of a pound of heroin and more than $3,900 in cash.
He was arrested on suspicion of drug possession, felony firearm possession and violating the terms of his probation. He remains in custody at the Sacramento County jail, according to Sheriff’s Department records.
Probation officers went on to search two other residences connected with Hansen. Searching a house in Auburn, officers seized six firearms, thousands of bullets, a bulletproof vest, a stolen trailer, heroin, a pipe bomb and $3,200 in cash.
Officers also searched a home in the 5300 block of Manzanita Avenue in Carmichael, yielding large amounts of methamphetamine, heroin and a loaded 9 mm handgun.
There, officers arrested Barton Sloan, 36, on suspicion of drug possession and owning a gun while subject to a restraining order. He remains in jail, according to Sheriff’s Department records.
In total, probation officers seized more than six pounds of methamphetamine and four pounds of heroin — worth an estimated $250,000 — and seven guns.
1 comment:
Sounds like a lot of illegal activity. I'll bet the violation of a retraining order got the ball rolling. He should have left that woman alone.
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