Saturday, March 08, 2014

Former Officer Craig Garner Charged with Selling Firearms to Convicted Felon

A 23-year veteran of the Alpharetta Police Department turned himself in Friday to Forsyth County authorities after he reportedly sold guns to a convicted felon.

Craig Allen Garner, 54, has been charged with two counts of party to a crime for selling guns, according to the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office.

“He acquired the firearms for the convicted felon with knowledge he was a convicted felon and he knew he shouldn’t have guns,” said Sheriff’s Maj. Rick Doyle. “They are friends.”

According to Doyle, Garner met Michael Cummings, a 44-year-old convicted felon, on two different days for the gun deal, which involved an assault rifle and 12-gauge shotgun. Both men are Forsyth County residents.

Cummings has been charged with one count of criminal solicitation and two counts of possession of a firearm, according to the sheriff’s office. His previous conviction — on charges of burglary, false imprisonment, aggravated assault and theft by taking — was from 1996 in Union County.

Cummings and Garner were booked at the Forsyth County Detention Center, from where Garner was later released after posting a bond of $22,220.

Cummings is being held without bond because he’s on active probation in Gwinnett and Union counties, Doyle said.

Garner was hired by the Alpharetta department in 1990 after working for the Kennesaw Police Department. Though he once served as a lieutenant in Alpharetta, he was an officer at the time of his arrest for unrelated reasons, said Assistant City Administrator James Drinkard.

Drinkard said Friday that Garner is “no longer an employee of the city as of [Thursday] afternoon.”

“At this time, there is no indication that any of the behaviors that led to the arrest occurred while he was on duty,” Drinkard said. “So at this point, there will not be further action from the city of Alpharetta, unless the investigation turns something up.

“His behaviors are certainly not indicative of the professionals that we have in our law enforcement agency.”

Garner is the founder of the Blue Bloods Motorcycle Club, a law enforcement group that raises funds for charities and awareness and supports the Second Amendment and U.S. Constitution, according to its website.

Reports that Cummings is also a club member could not be immediately confirmed.

21 comments:

Anonymous said...

Mike Cummings is also a founder of the Blue Bloods Motorcycle club. He is also the president of the Civilian and Nomad chapters of the Blue Bloods. There are also other former police officers in leadership roles of the Blue Bloods who were fired from APD for abusing and beating a suspect.After Bill Porter was fired for excessive force from APD he now works for the City of Roswell transportation department. The Blue Bloods MC was established as a for profit company, and all monies collected for charity were collected on false pretenses. The Blue Bloods and it's members have a Sons of Anarchy mentality make money for thier own personal gain, parties, and strip clubs. They have other felons or nefarious types within their ranks and proudly display this when they meet at The Cigar shop in Cumming, Ga....

Anonymous said...

That comment sounds like it came from former member and right hand man

Anonymous said...

Yep sounds like the guy they even threw out and filed false charges like the one above he is not saying his name cause he has no balls

Anonymous said...

Lmfao

Anonymous said...

Bruce Troville is the biggest pussy I have ever seen in my life.

Anonymous said...

Oh you know Bruce troville too?

Anonymous said...

Bt was in a bromance with Craig. He attended all the of parties hosted by mike. Bill kicked him out of bbmc and I think his heart got broken when the bromance ended bc it had to be clearly sexual in nature.

Anonymous said...

Yeah I'm sure BT did all kinds of weird stuff for CG so he could be in the BBMC.

Anonymous said...

You are all clearly a pack of fucking morons, all parties included. Craig, yourselves, and the ones you speak of are shining examples of what is wrong with this country. You all support a broken prison industrial complex, and are nothing more than mindless drones, feeding people into a 21st century slavery system. Craig obviously had a pile of bad karma on his plate that finally caught up to him. It's scary to think that we are putting these kinds of idiots in charge of "protecting" and "serving" our citizens. Let anyone that reads this post and the preceding comments see what a gaggle of uneducated redneck buffoons looks like. The officer in question here has been nothing but a criminal hiding behind a badge for 20+ years, and these people coming to his aide are probably no better. These people cheat on their wives, embezzle money, attack and abuse innocent strangers, and now provide assault rifles to violent felons. We are doomed as a society as long as we are allowing people like this to run our lives.

Anonymous said...

Wow to all comments above.... lol.

Anonymous said...

Well according to POST rules and regulations, a peace officer may not be associated with a,convicted felon. So,with that being said, all the active police officers need to be fired and lose their certification. I believe Gary George, Alpharetta police chief, does not want his officers associating with known felons, do you? Or the Milton police chief, do your officers who protect me and my family associate with known felons? WOW...just WOW.. Fire all the active officers who participated in this gang. Period...

Anonymous said...

http://www.bluebloodsmc.com/ has been taken down. Not surprising as they were a cowardly group of criminals in the first place.

Anonymous said...

Word around the sandbox is that dumb@$$ was demoted because his personal firearm went off in his squad car. What an idiot...

Anonymous said...

Another word around the sandbox is Bill Porter was fired for taking pictures with a girl who was scantly dressed in uniform, on his car. Not excessive force, he couldn't hurt a fly. Dumb@$$

Anonymous said...

Agree

Anonymous said...

D Bag

Anonymous said...

He gave me the impression when i 1st met him that he was single then told me he was married

Anonymous said...

I think the whole situation is sad.At least in a 1% club they don't hide who they are. Hiding behind a badge is just cowardly. To lose everything just months before retirement is such a waste....it's too bad, but ya cannot mess with God's kids not get your just deserve...

Anonymous said...

I think the whole situation is sad.At least in a 1% club they don't hide who they are. Hiding behind a badge is just cowardly. To lose everything just months before retirement is such a waste....it's too bad, but ya cannot mess with God's kids indefinitely and not get away with it

Anonymous said...

I think the whole situation is sad.At least in a 1% club they don't hide who they are. Hiding behind a badge is just cowardly. To lose everything just months before retirement is such a waste....it's too bad, but ya cannot mess with God's kids indefinitely and get away with it

Anonymous said...

You must be talking about Bill Porter? He has cheated on his wife twice that she knows of. There are many more that is why he is no longer a cop. Funny thing is the people in the club like Craig knew about is Russia girlefriend. The whole police dept. knew about her as well.