Citizen Report No. 1720661603 - 92254696

Shawn Karr

Bennington Police Department

Date of Offense

November 3, 2023

Offense(s)

Criminal Charges and/or Conviction

Supporting Document(s)

kxii.com-Former Texoma police officer sentenced for firearms charge.pdf

Statement

On or about November 3, 2023, KXII News reported:

MUSKOGEE, Okla. (KXII) - A former officer who worked at several Texoma police departments was sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to pawning his service weapons.
According to federal prosecutors, between 2018 and 2019, Shawn Karr, 37, of Howe sold department issued firearms at a pawn shop in Calera.
Karr was an officer in Bennington, Bokchito, and Boswell.
He pled guilty to possession of stolen firearms, and he was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison.

We will not stand by as our brothers and sisters are brutalized, criminalized, and silenced.

We reject a world where the powerful profit from our poverty and our lives are treated as expendable. We will not wait for justice to be handed down from above.
We will organize, resist, and take it for ourselves.

WE ARE NO LONGER ASKING...
#ReformIsNotARequest

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