07/17/08
Drew P. and Joel Brodsky caught in a Lie?http://www.jurorthirteen.com/GeneralCategories/Investigations/StacyPeterson/tabid/573/Default.aspxDrew Peterson lied to police about his folding gunEarly in the investigation, Ric Mims, an ex good friend of Drew Peterson, told the National Enquirer and Fox News, that Peterson had showed him a folding gun that he had hidden from police during a warrant when his other 11 guns were seized.
Last March Mims was called into an Illinois State Police station and asked to identify that particular gun. He identified the pistol as being Peterson's and said, It's the same one that he pulled out when I was staying at his house. They'd already seized his other guns."
Of course Peterson and his side-kick attorney Joel Brodsky called Ric Mims a liar and were making fun of Mims on the "Nancy Grace" show, last March.
On the show, Brodsky called the claim "simply another fabrication of slick Ric Mims."
"He's trying to sell another story to the National Enquirer now that he's run out of money," Brodsky added.
Now, some friends (?) of Peterson's, Len Wawczak and his wife, Paula Stark, say that Peterson signed the folding gun, a North American Arms .22-caliber revolver, over to Paula Stark the day after the State Police pulled Peterson's firearm owner's identification card in February.
There was a handwritten contract for the gun from Peterson to Stark dated February 28, 2008. The contract was written the day after he returned home from appearing on the "Today" show. Stark and Wawczak watched Peterson's children while he was in New York, according to Joe Hosey of the Sun Times. ( Hosey's book on the Drew Peterson case called "Fatal Vows" is suppose to be out in September).
"It was written before me, her, Drew and Kris," Peterson's teenage son, Wawczak said, at Drew's desk at his home office.
Stark and Wawczak said they took the gun home. Less than a month later, State Police took the gun when they came to their home to seize Stark's Ruger .357 Magnum revolver after her FOID card was suspended because it listed an inaccurate date of birth and outdated address. The State Police also found the .22, which folds into its own handle, and pegged it as Peterson's, Wawczak said.
It was "basically just a way for the State Police to break our balls because we're friends with Drew," Wawczak said.
I wonder how crow tastes, Peterson and Brodsky? You've been eating a lot of it lately. (IMO)
Speaking of guns, the grand jury handed down an indictment last Friday, on 2 counts of unlawful use of a weapon.
Drew Peterson's lawyers think a federal law allows the retired police officer to own a rifle with a shorter barrel.
But a state prosecutor did not agree. The Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act of 2004 doesn't permit officers to own weapons that would be illegal under state law, he said.
In a nutshell, those were the topics argued during a hearing that lasted a little more than an hour Monday afternoon in Will County Judge Richard Schoenstedt's courtroom.
The next hearing on the gun charges is scheduled for July 30.
Resources....
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/napervillesun/news/1055951,6_1_NA15_STATE1_S1.articlehttp://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/1058047,CST-NWS-boling16.article