Federal Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms is leading the investigation of a robbery at Capital Pawn on Hickpochee Avenue in LaBelle Wednesday, where a robber got away with stolen guns and other possible items from the shop. Hendry County Sheriff’s Office originally responded to the scene in response to the robbery after a call […]
ATF tool gives Lexington police the ammo they need to trace guns to crimes
So far this year, Lexington police have investigated more than four dozen shootings. 16 of them resulted in someone dying. Leigh Searcy gives us a preview of how police are connecting some of those crimes to other unsolved cases with technology.
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Much like a fingerprint, firearms leave clues. Police collect them on spent shell casings at crime scenes or on casings test-fired by officers after guns are recovered.
The Lexington Police Department uses an in-house system called NIBIN. It s the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network overseen by the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms.
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The wife of Dennis “Rooster” Katona, the former national president of the Pagans Motorcycle Club, said Wednesday neither she nor her husband knows why Victor F. Steban repeatedly mentioned Rooster’s name as Steban was arraigned Tuesday in the shooting deaths of a Penn Township couple.
“We don’t know Victor Steban, never met him and have no link to him. We want the public to know we simply do not know this guy,” said Shari Katona of Hempfield.
And, she said, they don’t know why Steban may have shot at their home over the weekend.