More wrong doing at the State Police

The Globe reports today about guns that are seized at the airport and what happens to them. I wrote about a similiar case involving the State cops and how guns that were supposed to be destroyed, ending up being sold to private parties last year.
Now we have a member of the coastguard who had an antique black powder pistol in his back pack while going through TSA inspection. They confiscated the gun which was made before 1900 and summons the passenger to court to face a illegal possession of a firearm. During the court hearing Judge Richard Sonnott indicated that the law doesn't apply to guns made before 1900. In June of last year, the judge ordered the antique gun be returned to the owner. It was then learned from the State Police that the gun had been destroyed along with seven other guns. State Police Major Charles Atchison Troop F was in charge in January when the judge said, " I have serious questions about the way evidence is being handled". This department (which is the group who patrols the airport) is the same group who have been the major contributor of bad cops scamming the state is bogus time sheets, has been ordered not to destroy any evidence without a court order.