Shep has always been a big weapons collector, going back to the 1980s, so I would be more surprised if the police did not find large numbers of handguns, machine guns, rockets, hand grenades, etc., in working condition, on his property. And if the police have not know about this for decades, because Shep never made any secret about it.
The news says that he was found to have pictures of child pornography on his computer, so he has been charged with sexual exploitation of a minor. I do not understand this. Isn't it like saying that if the police find that I have been reading novels of violent crimes such as bank robbery and murder (which I sometimes do; the novels of Richard Stark, for instance), this is enough for the police to arrest me for bank robbery and murder? This sounds ridiculous, but it sounds like what is happening here. The police certainly have to investigate when they suspect that a crime is being committed, but this sounds like an arrest is being made based on no more than the suspicious evidence of photographs on a computer. In the case of Mitch Beiro, the news said that he had confessed to the police that he did more than collect pictures of child pornography; he actually committed the sexual exploitation of a minor. This has not been announced here, or at least not yet. I would think that it is enough to start an investigation, but not enough yet to make an arrest.
Shep has always been a big weapons collector, going back to the 1980s, so I would be more surprised if the police did not find large numbers of handguns, machine guns, rockets, hand grenades, etc., in working condition, on his property. And if the police have not know about this for decades, because Shep never made any secret about it.
The news says that he was found to have pictures of child pornography on his computer, so he has been charged with sexual exploitation of a minor. I do not understand this. Isn't it like saying that if the police find that I have been reading novels of violent crimes such as bank robbery and murder (which I sometimes do; the novels of Richard Stark, for instance), this is enough for the police to arrest me for bank robbery and murder? This sounds ridiculous, but it sounds like what is happening here. The police certainly have to investigate when they suspect that a crime is being committed, but this sounds like an arrest is being made based on no more than the suspicious evidence of photographs on a computer. In the case of Mitch Beiro, the news said that he had confessed to the police that he did more than collect pictures of child pornography; he actually committed the sexual exploitation of a minor. This has not been announced here, or at least not yet. I would think that it is enough to start an investigation, but not enough yet to make an arrest.
Fred Patten