Florida Woman Arrested For Turning In Husband’s Guns
BY Herschel Smith
5 years, 5 months ago
LAKELAND — A 32-year-old woman was arrested on June 15 when she gathered her husband’s guns to turn them over to the Lakeland Police Department.
According to Courtney Irby’s arrest affidavit, she told police her husband had been taken to jail for trying to run over her with a car. Irby said she went to Joseph Irby’s apartment on Village Center Drive in Lakeland and searched for the guns she knew he had.
When she told a Lakeland police officer she had the guns with her to turn them in, he replied, “So are you telling me that you committed an armed burglary?” and Irby answered, “Yes, I am, but he wasn’t going to turn them in, so I am doing it,” according to reports.
Oh don’t even think that the cops had any sympathy for the husband or disagreement with the confiscation of guns. The main problem here for the cops is that she broke the law. It would have been okay if the cops did the deed.
Don’t you know – we can’t let people enforce the law, only LEOs can do that.
On June 25, 2019 at 12:10 pm, moe mensale said:
“Don’t you know – we can’t let people enforce the law, only LEOs can do that.”
@Herschel,
The couple is apparently separated but not officially divorced yet. There are no indications that he threatened or physically assaulted her. There are no court ordered restraining or protective orders. It doesn’t appear that he has been ordered to turn in his firearms.
She took what amounts to preemptive steps in anticipation of what she assumes the court will order. Breaking & entering and theft are illegal actions regardless of the circumstances.
If you’re having problems with a neighbor or some other person, do you break into their home to gather up their weapons to give to the cops to prevent something that may or may not happen? Would the cops smile, thank you, give you a cookie and send you on your way? I don’t think so.