William Lawrence of Maplewood, Mo. is facing federal charges of of interstate commerce in the commission of a murder for hire after he allegedly placed an ad on Craigslist in which he said: “Wanted dead, all the maplewood (sic) city police officers, paying one million per head, two million for detective (name)”
I don’t know the guy.
The charges were filed March 2. Apparently Lawrence was upset because a Maplewood police office used a TASER on him after a disturbance at his home in February and confiscated a rifle, shotgun and marijuana.
He had been pestering the Maplewood PD with calls demanding the return of the rifle and shotgun.
If the Maplewood Police had Joel Braun’s Non-Lethal Weapon Mount With Modular Weapon Components, they could have not just tased Lawrence, they could have pepper-sprayed him, blinded him with a light and shot him with a non-lethal bullet as well.