Detectors Involved in Looting Civil War Battlefield

[berryman]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/28/us/petersburg-battlefield-looting/index.html

 

[Sanderling]

Berryman I just posted an article from Fox News about this as I did not see your post. Thankfully the vast majority of us respect the understandable prohibitions of detecting on protected lands. Thanks for sharing the article.

 

[Elton]

let's just hope their caught and prosecuted .....

 

[doc holiday232]

The last time the park service found and cried "Looters" it turned out to be squirrels,but the media had already done it's hatchet job.

 

[Larry (IL)]

Nothing new here, it's been going on since recreational metal detectors were made 60 years ago and it will continue because it is human nature for some people to break the law thinking they will not get caught or the law does not apply to them. There are law breakers from every walk of life, doctors, lawyers, politicians to the low life.

 

[doc holiday232]

Question: How does the guvmint KNOW detectors were used?? Do they have film?? This is just a chance for them to bash detectors.As they say,"never let a crisis go to waste".

 

[RichW]

The link I clicked on didn't show any holes or any other evidence. Just a Park ranger a a few others being interview. i wouldn't rule out this story was made up, especially after what I've seen the last 8 years. Maybe it happened, maybe it didn't.

 

[bootyhoundpa]

Im also a little skeptical. .. why did they go public with this story ...did they attempt any kind of stakeout 1st? i mean these rangers have position in law enforcement therefore if they truly truly believe a detector was used sooner or later the alleged culprit would return but for some reason it made more sense to them to go public... thats the thing that just doesnt make sense to me. .. i dont know what to think about this whole mess..

 

[sweeper60]

Lol, It was the Lady Park Ranger, She had a Fischer X12?? on the ground next to her