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Claren­don Hills, IL

A for­mer police offi­cer is accused of steal­ing five weapons from a gun turn-in pro­gram run by his department.

Daniel Ryan of Claren­don Hills, Illi­nois, a west­ern sub­urb of Chicago, is charged with sev­eral counts of pos­ses­sion of a stolen firearm and offi­cial mis­con­duct, all felonies. If con­victed, he could face up to 15 years in prison, the Claren­don Hills Patch reports.

Accord­ing to the Chicago Sun-Times, the state’s attorney’s office received an anony­mous tip in Feb­ru­ary that guns were dis­ap­pear­ing from the department’s cache. The office con­tacted the FBI, and a joint inves­ti­ga­tion appar­ently led to Ryan.

“Any­time a pub­lic ser­vant is charged with a crime it is indeed a sad day,” DuPage County State’s Attor­ney Robert Berlin said in a state­ment. “I want to make it per­fectly clear, how­ever, that these charges are against one man and are not an indict­ment on an entire police force.”

The five stolen guns were an Ithaca M1911 A1 World War II U.S. Army .45 cal­iber gun, a .22-caliber Short But­ler, a Smith and Wes­son .38 cal­iber Airlight Spe­cial, a Moss­berg 590 12 gauge shot­gun and a Con­necti­cut Val­ley Bob­cat .50 cal­iber gun, writes TribLocal.

None of them was linked to any crim­i­nal activ­ity, Berlin’s office pointed out. Instead, they were given to the depart­ment as part of a turn-in pro­gram for unwanted firearms.

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