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Armory heist ringleader sentenced for stealing grenade launcher, machine guns, M16s & NVGs
More at link but all I can say is...wow.The leader of an armory heist that brought in a major haul, including machine guns, grenade launchers, rifles, pistols, night vision goggles and various other items, was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison, a Department of Justice release said.
Brandon Shane Polston, 33, admitted that on Thanksgiving Day 2017, he jumped the fence at an Army National Guard base in Lancaster, South Carolina, and entered the armory when he realized one of the building’s doors was unlocked and nary a soul was present.
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Among the items recovered by the officer were:
(1) M249 Squad Automatic Weapon light machine gun
(2) M16 rifles
(1) M203 grenade launcher
(1) set of NVGs
(2) Beretta M9 pistols
... and a partridge in a pear tree.
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State Law Enforcement Division agents, upon investigating the armory’s security, found that an outer armory door remained unlocked. Additionally, the weapons vault was not secured and none of the weapons racks were locked.
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