Mar 19, 2015

Repeat felons got money for guns but we pay for their repeated legal fees

Joshua Stockhoff lives in the greenbelt area but he has a gun. Jason Michael Passerini can't pay his registration but he has firearms. And who pays for their legal expenses?

Taxpayers.


EPD Press release:

On 3/16/15 at about 8:45 p.m., an Officer with the Eureka Police Department conducted a traffic enforcement stop on a tan Jeep Cherokee with expired registration at the 3900 Block of Broadway.  The driver, Jason Michael Passerini, 36 of Eureka, was found to have an outstanding felony warrant for assault with a deadly weapon and was driving on a suspended license.

While being taken into custody, Passerini was found to have two loaded firearms and a fixed blade knife concealed on his person.  Both firearms, a.45 caliber 1911 Colt and a Smith and Wesson .38 revolver were fully loaded and chambered to fire.  A third firearm, an unloaded Winchester 270 rifle was located inside the vehicle along with additional ammunition for the pistols and rifle.

Passerini was arrested and booked into the Humboldt County Correctional Facility for possession of a concealed and loaded firearm, being a felon in possession of a firearm, being a felon in possession of ammunition, and possession of a concealed dirk/dagger

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