19 guns are recovered through LeadsOnline

“In August, we received a report of 11 stolen guns from a residence in our county. Unfortunately, at the time we had no serial numbers nor did we have a suspect. I started searching the guns using a description of each one. I noticed a name that appeared about three times on different guns that were described as very similar to the ones we were looking for. I ran the name and found 9 of the 11 guns we were looking for and also located 10 more that the victim did not know were even missing! After running the now suspects information through the DMV files, I was able to find that the suspect had a vehicle registered in his and the victim’s daughters name! This tied it all together. We called in the two suspects and got a confession! Thanks LeadsOnline, without this tool who knows where these guns would have ended up.”

Sgt. Mason Boggess
Giles County Sheriff’s Department
Virginia

Case wouldn’t have been solved without LeadsOnline

“In May, Pearisburg Police Department took a report of a stolen gun. Officer Mike Spicer of Pearisburg Police contacted me at the Sheriff’s Office to see if anything was showing up on LeadsOnline. I checked several different things and was unable to come up with a firearm, but I was able to locate a knife that his suspect had sold at a business. Spicer was able to verify with his victim that he was also missing a knife. He interviewed his suspect and the suspect denied everything. When he showed his suspect the LeadsOnline ticket for the knife, the suspect’s head dropped! Spicer got a full confession. He told me if it weren’t for LeadsOnline, we probably wouldn’t have solved this one because the business used was so far away and we don’t normally check for things there.”

Sgt. Mason Boggess
Giles County Sheriff’s Office
Virginia