{"id":114670,"date":"2021-06-18T15:11:12","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T19:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=114670"},"modified":"2021-06-18T15:11:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T19:11:12","slug":"st-louis-couple-who-defended-home-from-mob-with-firearms-pleads-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=114670","title":{"rendered":"St Louis couple who defended home from mob with firearms pleads guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-102483\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/mark-and-patricia-500x281.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/mark-and-patricia-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/mark-and-patricia-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/mark-and-patricia.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/06\/17\/armed-st-louis-couple-pleads-guilty-forfeits-guns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Breitbart is reporting<\/a> that Mark and Patricia McCloskey (pictured) have plead guilty to two misdemeanor crimes and forfeited the two firearms used (also pictured). From the article;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Armed St. Louis couple Mark and Patricia McCloskey pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges Thursday and agreed to forfeit the guns they used while confronting protesters June 28, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>WSPA reports that Mark plead guilty to \u201cmisdemeanor fourth-degree assault\u201d and Patricia plead guilty to misdemeanor harassment.<\/p>\n<p>The guns forfeited by the McCloskey\u2019s \u201cwill be destroyed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Breitbart News reported that Mark and Patricia stood outside their home with an AR-15 and a pistol as protesters moved through their neighborhood on June 28, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Mark told KMOV4 he came out armed because the protesters allegedly burst through a historic gate on the way to his property.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cA mob of at least 100 smashed through the historic wrought iron gates of Portland Place, destroying them, rushed towards my home where my family was having dinner outside and put us in fear of our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Armed St. Louis couple Mark and Patricia McCloskey pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges Thursday and agreed to forfeit the guns they used while confronting protesters June 28, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>WSPA reports that Mark plead guilty to \u201cmisdemeanor fourth-degree assault\u201d and Patricia plead guilty to misdemeanor harassment.<\/p>\n<p>The guns forfeited by the McCloskey\u2019s \u201cwill be destroyed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Breitbart News reported that Mark and Patricia stood outside their home with an AR-15 and a pistol as protesters moved through their neighborhood on June 28, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Mark told KMOV4 he came out armed because the protesters allegedly burst through a historic gate on the way to his property.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cA mob of at least 100 smashed through the historic wrought iron gates of Portland Place, destroying them, rushed towards my home where my family was having dinner outside and put us in fear of our lives.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you want to see how your tax dollars are reporting on this, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/06\/17\/1007984646\/patricia-mark-mccloskey-waved-guns-blm-protesters-plead-guilty-misdemeanors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR&#8217;s decidedly biased &#8220;reporting&#8221; here<\/a>. It starts with &#8220;File under sorry not sorry. The wealthy husband-and-wife team who were slapped with criminal charges&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll recall that charges were long ago dropped against anyone cited for trespassing in the McCloskey&#8217;s gated community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breitbart is reporting that Mark and Patricia McCloskey (pictured) have plead guilty to two misdemeanor crimes &hellip; <a title=\"St Louis couple who defended home from mob with firearms pleads guilty\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=114670\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">St Louis couple who defended home from mob with firearms pleads guilty<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,213,302,576,185,82,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-antifa","category-blm","category-crime","category-gun-grabbing-fascists","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114671,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114670\/revisions\/114671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}