Cops: Darby officer stole and sold department's guns
A Darby Township police officer was arrested today for allegedly stealing two guns from the department where he worked and selling them.
Cops: Darby officer stole and sold department's guns
Stephanie Farr
A Darby Township police officer was arrested today for allegedly stealing and selling two guns from the department where he worked.
Ofc. Johnathan Fiscaro, 23, of Folcroft, was charged with theft and related offenses and is being held in the Delaware County Prison on $100,000 bail tonight.
According to the Delaware County District Attorney's Office, on March 3 a Darby Township officer noticed that his DPMS model A-15 rifle was missing from his storage locker at the barracks. Shortly thereafter, it was discovered another police gun, a Bushmaster rifle model XM-15-EZS, was also missing.
Today, in interviews with detectives from the county's Criminal Investigation Division, Fiscaro admitted to taking one rifle in January and selling it to another, unidentified person for $500 on Feb. 24, according to prosecutors.
Fiscaro also admitted to taking the second rifle, sometime in the fall of 2011 and selling that one to another, unidentified person for $600, prosecutors said.
The guns are valued at about $2,000 each.
Fiscaro also tried to implicate a second person in the theft of the guns, but prosecutors didn't buy it and instead charged him with false reports, a news release said.
I wonder how Fiscaro got his job. Perhaps, he had connections.— Anne Arkey- Schmuck!— BillyBob369
- WOW ! Does anyone ever inspect police equipment on a monthly basis?
Some heads will roll. I hope the police can get the guns back and arrest the other two criminals.— jtw - What a dumb dumb puck.. He threw away a career for $1100 bucks.— turkytom
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- Just wondering if this d-s even has a high school diploma? Wonder what his qualifications were? Apparently Darby Township has rather low / lenient standards for police officers?— John - Lancaster
- Even more amazing than the stupidity of this person is the amount of time it took to realize pieces of deadly equipment were missing. Let's represent.— StorminNorman
- So let's see if he is treated like any other citizen when it comes to all the charges/time in jail he should get or will the thin blue line prevail. Will he get a deal from the DA or will the gun laws on the books be used to their fullest?— Taxpaying Voter
- Yet another not-too-bright "officer of the law" who thinks that the law does not apply to him. Why aren't they training these cops to be moral individuals, and thereby avoid the temptations that come with the (most of time undeserved?) privilege of wearing the badge? Could the answer be that the higher-ups are only more of the same? Also please check out the "Injustice Everywhere" site, because police crimes against the citizens get much worse then greed motivated ones such as this.— Dave 2009
- Where does the police find these dimwits? They must be actively recruiting in the special ed schools.— DonQ
- Special Ed students are not greedy.— marcie
