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Police Get An AK Off The Streets
posted (April 21, 2011)
In the past 10 days, police have taken 5 handguns off the street. Last night they did themselves one better: they found a loaded, fully functional AK-47, that's the kind of machine gun that the BDF uses!

The find was made during a joint operation staged this morning between 4:00 and 10:00 this morning in three city gang hotspots: Mayflower, George and Queen Charlotte Streets - where the Southside Gangsters are based. That's where at about 7:15am, a search was conducted on Faber's Road near the Dyke area, where police found this AK47 with a magazine and 9 live rounds.

Also in that area, police found a bullet proof vest. On Mayflower street at 5:15 am, six and a half ounces of marijuana was found in open lot. And at 6:20, police searched the home of Roland Rivers on Antelope Street, where four thousand and thirty nine dollars was found. Now it's not a crime to have money, but he was taxed to the tune of nine hundred and sixty five dollars.

And while on Mayflower Street, [olice also arrested Joseph PANTING who was detained on the strength of a Commitment Warrant. You may remember Panting as "Tencho" who was shot in the face in august of last year….

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