6/13/2013

Horrible story of retired Vet who went in for counseling and found his 100 year old antique guns confiscated

From the Daily Herald:
Arthur Lovi sat down with a therapist one day last August to talk about some things that were bothering him. He had high blood pressure, and his physician suggested he talk to someone.
He already spoke to a VA psychiatrist once a month — he has persistent memories from his days as an Air Force crash rescue helicopter pilot in the 1960s — but he agreed. He’d been through a lot lately and figured it couldn’t hurt to get some of it out.
“I felt like the weight of the world was on my shoulders,” he said.
Lovi told her about the loss that had been all around him the past few years: his mother, a 3-year-old granddaughter who drowned, a son-in-law lost to a drug overdose, and worst of all, his wife of 33 years…
…After the session, Lovi’s therapist was concerned. She called the Arlington Heights police to report he had made a threat against the first doctor who saw his wife. . . .
According to an Arlington Heights police report, officers contacted the doctor who diagnosed the cold. The doctor told police he "did not feel like his safety was in immediate jeopardy."
But that night about 11 p.m. there was a knock at Lovi's door. His son answered and saw four or five police officers standing outside. . . .

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2 Comments:

Blogger L R said...

Very much like the Gestapo.

6/13/2013 8:06 AM  
Blogger Martin G. Schalz said...

So much for the guaranteed right to due process.

This is not an unusual case, as police routinely seize items without a warrant, and or a court order, and then force the person whom was wronged, to go through a long court battle to retrieve items that never should have been seized in the first place.

6/14/2013 1:11 PM  

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