Grand Rapids Police: Series of gun store burglaries appear to be linked

By Andrew Shepperson

A rash of gun store burglaries around Grand Rapids has law enforcement officials surmising that the crimes are linked.
Grand Rapids Police Chief David Rahinksky said Wednesday that evidence points to a group of teenagers who burglarized Grand Rapids Barracks 616 and Grandville Cabela’s, and attempted to steal firearms from Ace Hardware and Bachelder Master Gunmakers, MLive reported.
“To state the obvious, the last thing we want is to put additional illegal guns on the street,” Rahinsky said. “We’ve made it a public health initiative to address the gun issue, the gun violence issue, and the number of shooting victims … It’s not something we’re going to tolerate as a law enforcement agency or as a community. We won’t sit by and wait for tragedies to happen.”
Four teenagers — ages 13, 14, 15, and 16 — were arrested Sept. 17 in connection to gun thefts from Cabela’s in Grandville, in which 13 handguns were taken from the shop. Officers then arrested three more juveniles and at least one adult who also had ties to the crimes.
Despite the arrests, the break-ins weren’t done yet, as three more gun stores were invaded on Sept. 23. The thieves were not able to get away with firearms

Source: Guns.com