Disabled Iraq Vet Arrested For Stalking Westboro Church Members

[WillParkinson]

KANSAS: Disabled Iraq Vet Arrested For Stalking Westboro Church Members

An 26 year-old veteran who lost both his legs in Iraq has been charged with stalking members of the Westboro Baptist Church after police found him following the Westboro family van in a car stocked with handguns, a rifle, and dozens of rounds of ammunition.

Sedgwick County sheriff's detectives arrested Newell mid-morning Tuesday in the Wichita City Hall parking lot after a detective saw him following a van that carried Westboro church members. The church members were meeting in City Hall with police officials. Detectives found Newell in a vehicle backed into a parking space. In the vehicle, investigators found two handguns, a rifle and more than 90 rounds of ammunition, sources have said. The stalking charge accuses Newell of actions targeted at Westboro members and putting them in fear for their safety. The weapons charges accuse him of unlawfully carrying and concealing or possessing with "intent to use" an M4 rifle, .45-caliber Glock handgun and .38-caliber Smith and Wesson handgun.

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2010/12/kansas-disabled-iraq-vet-arrested-for.html

(A lot more at the link, including how the Phelps clan "feels")

[arcane1]

1. *Toast* to Sedgwick County sheriff's detectives!

:toast:

[social_critic]

2. Kansas Police needs an attitude fix

That gun collection sure sounds like a perfectly fine set of weapons a red blooded American needs for self-defense. If arsenic eating aliens land, what do they think we're going to use, spitballs?

[frylock]

3. i feel bad for this kid..

something like this was bound to happen, and someone may yet succeed in their mission.

[awoke_in_2003]

4. You know the old saying...

"where's a cop when you need them?". Well, this one should have been there :evilgrin:

[appleannie1]

5. I don't condone his actions but I have expected something like this for years

[Glassunion]

6. Ditto.

I feel for the young man. But there are better ways.