20 Shotguns Missing From Flint Police Department
FLINT (WWJ/AP) - A Flint police official says 20 department-owned shotguns have been reported missing.
According to a police report, a Jan. 22 inventory audit determined one Mossberg and 19 Remington duty shotguns are missing from the department's supplies.
Police Chief James Tolbert said Wednesday he hopes a department-wide audit will reveal the whereabouts of the weapons. He said an audit hadn't been done on the department's firearm equipment in a long time, and the discrepancy may have been caused by a paperwork issue.
Tolbert said items belonging to other departments are sometimes improperly attributed to Flint. In other instances, weapons belonging to Flint have shown up in other departments' property rooms because officers might have used them in response to calls outside of the city's jurisdiction.
"Some of the items actually belong to other police departments across the country. We don't know how it got attributed to Flint though," he told The Grand Rapids. "As soon as we can get an accurate understanding of what we have and don't have, we'll be moving forward from there."
The last time the department checked its weapons inventory was during a partial firearms audit 12 years ago.
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