simple
October 2nd, 2000, 02:03 PM
Well this does'nt apply to the sat. industry but it shows just how incompitent our RCMP really are:
Taken from Canoe.ca
October 2, 2000
Mounties deny drawing guns on wrong suspect after stakeout in Newfoundland
ST. FINTAN'S, Nfld. (CP) -- The RCMP have dismissed a man's claim that two officers drew their guns when they barged into his home on the weekend and erroneously accused him of firing a shotgun.
Troy Gilbert, 28, of St. Fintan's, Nfld., said he was barely awake Sunday morning when he heard someone pounding on his front door.
"I looked and it was a police officer (who said), 'Open the door or I'll beat it down," Gilbert said Sunday.
After he opened the door, he said three Mounties barged in, forced him to the floor and accused him of carelessly firing a shotgun inside the town of 500 in western Newfoundland.
"I barely had my pants on and they treated me like I was Charles Manson," Gilbert added. "There was two cops there with their guns drawn. I said, 'What's going on? I never done nothing.' "
But the RCMP, who later charged two young offenders with careless use of a firearm, insist that's not the way it happened.
"Police entered the residence without drawing their side arms," the RCMP said in a statement released Monday.
The statement said the homeowner accepted the police's explanation of their response and had no complaint against the RCMP.
However, Gilbert said he was livid about what happened.
"I can guarantee you this is far from over with," the forestry worker said. "What happened. . . was out of this world. .. . It could have been a tragedy."
The RCMP in Stephenville, 50 kilometres northeast of St. Fintan's, said they received a complaint Sunday about shots being fired at 3:25 a.m. local time.
The investigating officers said they heard shots after they arrived on the scene, but they couldn't tell where they came from. Still, they narrowed their search to two homes.
"Attempts made all morning to contact the residents of these homes proved unsuccessful," the RCMP said.
An officer in the Stephenville detachment said the two young offenders were also charged with public mischief in connection to telephone calls they made.
Gilbert said the RCMP couldn't reach him by phone because his mother Louise leaves the receiver off the hook at night. And he said the two of them didn't hear the police yelling to them through loudspeakers before they came to the door at dawn.
Louise Gilbert said she was terribly upset by what happened but she understood why the RCMP acted the way they did.
"I don't feel what they did was wrong," she said, adding that she saw no weapons when she went downstairs after hearing her son's angry voice.
The two young offenders, who cannot be named, are scheduled to appear in court Dec. 13 in Stephenville.
Taken from Canoe.ca
October 2, 2000
Mounties deny drawing guns on wrong suspect after stakeout in Newfoundland
ST. FINTAN'S, Nfld. (CP) -- The RCMP have dismissed a man's claim that two officers drew their guns when they barged into his home on the weekend and erroneously accused him of firing a shotgun.
Troy Gilbert, 28, of St. Fintan's, Nfld., said he was barely awake Sunday morning when he heard someone pounding on his front door.
"I looked and it was a police officer (who said), 'Open the door or I'll beat it down," Gilbert said Sunday.
After he opened the door, he said three Mounties barged in, forced him to the floor and accused him of carelessly firing a shotgun inside the town of 500 in western Newfoundland.
"I barely had my pants on and they treated me like I was Charles Manson," Gilbert added. "There was two cops there with their guns drawn. I said, 'What's going on? I never done nothing.' "
But the RCMP, who later charged two young offenders with careless use of a firearm, insist that's not the way it happened.
"Police entered the residence without drawing their side arms," the RCMP said in a statement released Monday.
The statement said the homeowner accepted the police's explanation of their response and had no complaint against the RCMP.
However, Gilbert said he was livid about what happened.
"I can guarantee you this is far from over with," the forestry worker said. "What happened. . . was out of this world. .. . It could have been a tragedy."
The RCMP in Stephenville, 50 kilometres northeast of St. Fintan's, said they received a complaint Sunday about shots being fired at 3:25 a.m. local time.
The investigating officers said they heard shots after they arrived on the scene, but they couldn't tell where they came from. Still, they narrowed their search to two homes.
"Attempts made all morning to contact the residents of these homes proved unsuccessful," the RCMP said.
An officer in the Stephenville detachment said the two young offenders were also charged with public mischief in connection to telephone calls they made.
Gilbert said the RCMP couldn't reach him by phone because his mother Louise leaves the receiver off the hook at night. And he said the two of them didn't hear the police yelling to them through loudspeakers before they came to the door at dawn.
Louise Gilbert said she was terribly upset by what happened but she understood why the RCMP acted the way they did.
"I don't feel what they did was wrong," she said, adding that she saw no weapons when she went downstairs after hearing her son's angry voice.
The two young offenders, who cannot be named, are scheduled to appear in court Dec. 13 in Stephenville.