Skeeter Mangan
The San Luis Obispo Police Department referred its investigation into the man who found the chief’s gun in a bathroom to the District Attorney’s Office for consideration of charges on Monday.
Police are asking prosecutors to consider charging Skeeter Mangan of Los Osos with grand theft of a firearm, possession of stolen property and carrying a loaded firearm in public. Prosecutors have not yet taken a position on the request, according tp District Attorney Dan Dow.
“The District Attorney’s Office is obligated under law to review this investigation, and all of the evidence contained in the investigation, in order to make a determination of whether a crime was committed and whether there is sufficient evidence to prove the crime, and if so, whether it would be in the interest of justice to pursue charges,” Dow said in an email.
At about noon on July 10, Chief Deanna Cantrell left her pistol in the bathroom of an El Pollo Loco restaurant. A short time later, Mangan walked into the bathroom and discovered the loaded and unattended firearm on top of a toilet paper dispenser.
Mangan put the gun in his pocket, left the restaurant, rode his moped scooter home, and put the firearm in a dresser drawer.
After spotting Mangan on the news on July 11, as the person suspected of having the chief’s gun, Mangan’s brother-in-law, Sean Greenwood, drove to Los Osos to ask Mangan about the firearm.
“My dear brother-in-law not only found a loaded and chambered Glock (a pistol with only one safety, on the trigger) in a public restroom, he removed it moments before a 10-year-old boy entered the room,” Greenwood said. “I asked my brother-in-law about what had happened, he explained to me he didn’t know what to do with the gun so he placed it in a drawer and contemplated how to find the owner.”
Greenwood then called the SLO Police Department and spoke with a dispatcher who sent officers to Los Osos to collect the firearm. The officers thanked Greenwood and Mangan, and said they did not plan to charge Mangan based on Penal Code 485, Greenwood said.
According to Penal Code 485, a person is guilty of theft if they find property, and appropriate the property for their own use, “without first making reasonable and just efforts to find the owner and to restore the property to the owner.”
It was only after reading a Tribune article that claimed Greenwood turned his brother-in-law in, that Mangan’s family discovered the police department had asked the SLO County District Attorney’s Office to consider charging Mangan with possession of a stolen firearm.
“Little did Skeeter know, he would be ridiculed and labeled by media and some, to me, quite broken souls commenting about his appearance. When really, if you stop and think about it, he quite possibly saved a child’s life by removing the firearm,” Greenwood said.
The DA’s stance to prosecute the innocent person shows me he (Dow) is not fit to continue in office, first the Chief whom you (DA Dow) do NOT like as she is Gay and that goes against your fanatical religious beliefs . To charge anyone with ” Receiving stolen property” the Property must have been stolen ?
Dah ? no police report of any stolen report was done ? if not for this gun finding the unaccompanied loaded firearm someone may have gotten hurt or killed. Did the Chief submit to an Drug, Medications, Alcohol tests ? was she under the influence ? was she sane ?
Pathetic DA
R U Kidding ? The Chief is the Culprit, she lost her Loaded Weapon I’m glad someone found it and no one was hurt. So the District Attorney wants to kill the messenger ? Get a Life Mr. Dow and see how much the entire community has now turned against you. With all your incompetent cases or lack thereof.
Lets let a Rapists cop go free ? McGuire, let’s charge a young ill (Brigham) person with a pony Dark Web scandal that now is turned into the laughing stock of SLO. Your one and only star witness is a Registered Pedophilia and Child Molester who had more than 58 + Photos of YOUNG Boys with him on his computer which was seized by UK Officials.
You give him a convict of many crimes Immunity for Crimes so he can pretend to be a Dark Web sleuth of which he is NOT. I will not be supporting you if you ever run again for anything.
You have disappointed and brought shame to the office of the DA. Your dismal reputation is now public and the town is talking, Mr. Folsom was right your out of your league.