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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMan charged with stealing antique gun from museum, trying to sell it on reality TV show
http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2012/05/wylie_newton_american_guns_stolen_antique_gun_museum.phpThieves dispensing with stolen goods typically do so quietly, outside the public eye. But if Wheat Ridge Police are right, Wylie Newton is a different breed. Newton is accused of stealing an antique pistol from a New Mexico museum, then trying to sell it on a reality TV show. The gun in question is a Colt Dragoon black powder revolver that dates to the 1800s and is valued at $20,000, according to the Wheat Ridge Police Department. It was stolen from a private museum in New Mexico last December.
That same month, a man identified as "Wylie" popped up in an episode of American Guns, a Discovery Channel program filmed at Gunsmoke Guns in Wheat Ridge. The show focuses on owner Rich Wyatt and his "typical suburban family," as well as customers at the shop. During the sequence in question, "Wylie" tries to sell a pair of museum-quality black powder revolvers. An American Guns viewer who the WRPD describes as being familiar with the investigation into the gun theft at the museum subsequently contacted New Mexico authorities -- and earlier this year, they, in turn, reached out to officers in Wheat Ridge.
The cops eventually tracked down Newton in his hometown of Erie and set up a sting operation. Last week, undercover detectives portraying themselves as buyers traveled to Erie and made an offer to buy the gun. But rather than ponying up cash, they paid Newton back by arresting him on a New Mexico warrant. Newton, who's 64, was jailed at the Jefferson County Detention Center -- an experience that may not have been wholly new to him. According to the Denver Post, he's got a slew of prior arrests, including assault and intimidating a witness.
Next stop: New Mexico, where he may make future TV appearances -- on the nightly news.
(figured this was more appropriate for GD than The Gungeon, since it more about a Dumb Crook than what he stole)
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Man charged with stealing antique gun from museum, trying to sell it on reality TV show (Original Post)
Johnny Rico
May 2012
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slackmaster
(60,567 posts)1. Dumbass.
Domingo Tavella
(41 posts)2. Picture perfect
By the his looks, this man has the intellectual capacity that would be the envy of most Tea Party supporters.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)3. "Wylie Newton is a different breed"....
Yup!
LiberalFighter
(50,783 posts)4. Personally, I don't think the breed changed. They are still stupid.
Just the venues available for them has increased.
MineralMan
(146,255 posts)5. Now, that's a stupid fellow.
Yup. There are plenty of places in his area that wouldn't question where a guy who looked like him got a valuable antique pistol in perfect condition. They'd simply make him a lowball offer that the guy would think was terrific, buy the pistol, then keep it for a couple of years and sell it at an auction for what it's worth. But Bozo there doesn't know that, so he brought it to a TV show, instead.
Uff da!