I know this is a small town, is there a gun range anywhere nearby? If a deputy knew about the guns, who else knew? Would it have been common knowledge or maybe just a few people that the dad (I imagine he's the gun owner) did Target practicing with?
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I go back to what I have reporter before.
Fire "rolled" at 7:14. At 7:53, a deputy told dispatch (this is a close quote) "According to fire, there are firearms inside of house, some may be missing."
I never said the deputy knew ahead of time.
Yes, downtown Bailey is small, but the whole postal area code covers about 15 square miles.
It is rural.
No, it would not have been common knowledge that fire knew there were guns in the house, knew how many and what kinds and knew which were missing, all of this in the middle of fighting an interior fire.
I'm suggesting there was someone else (besides the renter) at the house that passed on that info to fire. And I'm also suggesting that info may have been to cover for something. Remember, six days later (six, whole friggin' days), a BOLO mentions missing firearms and ammo.
I heard the whole thing go down from the beginning, taking handwritten notes. So I have a lot more info that was not heard by the general public.
But if I don't have other sources for what I wrote down, I don't report it.
When I wrote down about the missing firearms, I held that off until this weeks article, since I was now able to source missing firearms with a BOLO that mentions stolen firearms.