David A. Jones, who is now a captain and is still overseeing the police department’s Executive Protection Unit, used taxpayer dollars to purchase a Glock 43 9mm-caliber handgun in 2016, and declared under penalty of perjury that the gun would only be used by the department, the documents show. Instead, it was issued to former Chief Financial Officer Jim Beard on the same day it was purchased, a potential violation of federal law. [More]
Leave it to them to add a whole new dimension to "Don't lie for the other guy." I guess that's why they're trained professionals and we're not.
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The former Arizona Director of Economic Security Tim Jefferies had purchased 50 handguns and 80,000 rounds of ammunition for the agency with taxpayer money.
ReplyDeleteHe was fired by Gov. Doug Ducey in 2018.
Why in the world would social workers need an armory.