Baltimore MHIL Charged Last Year

[ICW2019]

We all know about the William Johnson guy who worked for BPD that was charged with honest services fraud by giving applicants fake HQL and CCW training sheets.

They estimated over 100 hql applicants and 45 CCW applicants who used his training number designation. What do you think happened to all these people who either had malicious intent or honestly thought they were legal and applied and received their license/permit?

Baltimore County Police Officer Facing Federal Indictment for Allegedly Seeking and Accepting Bribes in Exchange for Falsely Certifying the Completion of Firearms Training Required to Obtain a Handgun

A federal grand jury today returned an indictment charging William R. Johnson, Jr., age 32, of Baltimore, Maryland, for a federal charge of honest services wire fraud, for allegedly seeking and accepting bribes and kickback to falsely certify that applicants for Maryland handgun qualifying...

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[daNattyFatty]

They probably got notified by MSP that their HQL was rescinded.


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[lazarus]

They probably got notified by MSP that their HQL was rescinded.


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I would guess likely that. DA probably doesn't have enough time on their hands to charge all of the people who got the licenses. Especially because they probably would need to prove knowledge AND intent. Elsewhere someone mentioned that ignorance of the law is no excuse is not true. Crimes of fraud require both knowledge and intent. The DA would need to convince a jury that the person who received the license without any training or qualification was violating the law as well as the intent behind it, to secure a license without fulfilling those requirements.

Now in the instance of some guys not doing anything, that is probably not going to be too hard to prove ("so you knew you needed to take a class, didn't know the requirements of the class, but figured a guy just signing your qualification sheet counted as having 'taken a class'. And you somehow didn't even think for a second that probably that wasn't okay, but went ahead with it anyway with the intent to dodge the requirements needed for a license?"). But I'd think and hope that the DA still has better things to do with their time. Sure, nail the instructor. But the guys who got the licenses? Just invalidate them and go do things right next time. It isn't like they were prohibited people buying guns through a straw purchase or fake identity or something like that.