Police lieutenant's gun sold in buyback

NEW YORK, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- The New York Police Department said a gun reported stolen from a lieutenant's locker was sold to the department's buyback program for $100.

Police said Lt. Charles Minch's gun, one of two reported stolen from the 103rd Precinct station house Saturday, was turned in by a man at a Brooklyn station house later during the weekend, the New York Daily News reported Wednesday.

Internal Affairs officers said they are looking into whether the gun thefts were conducted by officers at the station house, where sources said some had been upset by Minch altering schedules to give some officers more weekend shifts.

"We've had guns disappear in the past because malcontents stupidly thought that was a way to make their cause known, but they usually showed up late in the same precinct," a police source told the Post. "For police guns to be floating around like this -- shameful."