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struggle4progress

(118,309 posts)
Fri Feb 26, 2016, 09:40 PM Feb 2016

Kansas Shooter's Ex-Girlfriend Charged With Providing Guns

By JULIA JACOBO & EMILY SHAPIRO
Feb 26, 2016, 7:22 PM ET

A woman has been charged with providing guns to the Kansas shooter who killed three people and injured 14 more in a rampage Thursday at his workplace and two other locations, officials said.

Sarah Hopkins, 28, of Newton, is accused of giving Cedric Larry Ford the guns used in the shooting, according to a release today from the office of U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom of Kansas.

A criminal charge filed today alleges Hopkins gave Ford an AK-47 type semi-automatic rifle and a Glock Model 22 .40-caliber handgun, the U.S. Attorney's office said. Hopkins was charged with one count of knowingly transferring a firearm to a convicted felon ...

Ford had the guns on him when he was shot and killed by police in a standoff ...


http://abcnews.go.com/US/kansas-shooters-girlfriend-charged-providing-guns-officials/story?id=37234632

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Kansas Shooter's Ex-Girlfriend Charged With Providing Guns (Original Post) struggle4progress Feb 2016 OP
good Duckhunter935 Feb 2016 #1
She will probably get a slap on the wrist and be told to not do that anymore. B Calm Feb 2016 #2
Doubtful, GGJohn Feb 2016 #5
An AK-47? scscholar Feb 2016 #3
Good. Nuclear Unicorn Feb 2016 #4
 

B Calm

(28,762 posts)
2. She will probably get a slap on the wrist and be told to not do that anymore.
Fri Feb 26, 2016, 09:47 PM
Feb 2016

But, that could depend on her race.

GGJohn

(9,951 posts)
5. Doubtful,
Fri Feb 26, 2016, 10:05 PM
Feb 2016

the Feds take this very seriously, she's facing a minimum 10 years in Club Fed and a $25,000.00 fine, and remember, in Federal prison, there is no parole, you do your full sentence.

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