Man Violates Protective Order From Prison With Letter Asking For Help Buying Guns

By Tom Knighton

If you have a protective order against someone who is also in prison, there’s a very good chance you don’t have to worry too much about that person violating the order. After all, their access is fairly limited. I mean, they’re in prison. It’s not like they’re going to show up at someone’s house without there being all kinds of other problems.

Yet there is one way, and that’s through the mail. Inmates can send snail mail all day long, and it’s generally not something that gets looked at. A person’s mail is private, after all.

So that’s how one prisoner violated the protective order against him. What’s amusing, though, is what he asked for in his letter.

The letters were from 26-year-old Andre Linton, who was serving a prison sentence for assaulting the woman and had been issued a full-no contact order by a judge to stay away from her, according to a warrant.

The letters were written from prison and, in one of them, Linton asked her to go to Vermont with him to buy guns after his release, according to a warrant. He also asked her to request that the protective order be dropped.

Well, isn’t that special?

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Source:: Bearing Arms