Destrehan man returns state trooper’s semi- automatic rifle

A 51-year-old Destrehan man returned a rifle he found on the side of I-10 after the weapon fell out of the trunk of a state trooper’s vehicle.

John Johnson walked into the lobby of the Troop B State Police Office on March 9 with the rifle and said that he had found it on the side of the road. Johnson said that he picked up the rifle because he did not want it to cause a crash or end up in the “wrong hands.” Johnson said he was watching the news when he saw a news story about the missing rifle and realized that the weapon he retrieved from the roadway belonged to the state police.

Johnson had found the rifle a day before when a fully-marked Louisiana State Police unit was responding to a reckless operator call for service on I-10 eastbound near Power Blvd. When the trooper merged onto I-10 from Williams Blvd., the car’s trunk opened and the trooper’s semi-automatic rifle flew into the roadway.

A witness who was traveling a few vehicles behind the trooper said that he saw the rifle topple to the roadway and observed a pick-up run over the semi-automatic weapon.
The witness then told police that the pick-up stopped and two males, one of which was Johnson, exited the vehicle and removed the rifle from the roadway before continuing eastbound on I-10.

 

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