Prosecutor gets 2 years on gun charges

**Defender** · June 1st, 2009, 08:03 PM

I was out in Iowa last week and read this story in one of the local papers. The former prosecutor, a Mr. Jeffrey Tekippe plea bargained for the 2 years for posessing two pistols that he knew were stolen. It seems the guns were evidence in criminal cases in Pottawattamie County. Go figure. Didn't this guy have enough cash to buy his own guns?

**bdevil73** · June 1st, 2009, 08:12 PM

http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/45870357.html

Former IA Prosecutor Gets 2 Years on Gun Charges

By Daren Sukhram

Story Created: May 22, 2009 at 5:00 PM CDT
Story Updated: May 22, 2009 at 5:00 PM CDT

DES MOINES (AP) - A former assistant Pottawattamie County attorney has been sentenced to two years in prison on a federal gun charge.

Jeffrey TeKippe was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court in Des Moines.

The U.S. attorney's office says TeKippe had previously entered into a plea agreement in which both sides agreed to the sentence.

TeKippe pleaded guilty to possession of stolen firearms. Court records show that in 2007 TeKippe possessed two pistols that he knew were stolen. Records show that the guns were evidence in criminal cases being prosecuted by the Pottawattamie County attorney's office.

TeKippe admitted that he knew the guns were stolen and that they
had been transported in interstate commerce.

Seems he has quite a history. He was also convicted of stealing cocaine from the county jail's evidence room.

http://www.kptm.com/Global/story.asp?S=7260593

Former Pottawattamie County Prosecutor Sentenced
Updated: Oct 31, 2007 04:42 PM

Former prosecutor Jeffrey Tekippe was sentenced to a maximum of 10 years in prison for cocaine possession.

Council Bluffs (KPTM) - A former Pottawattamie County prosecutor who stole cocaine from the County Jail's evidence room will have to serve jail time.
A judge sentenced Jeffrey Tekippe to a maximum of ten years in prison Wednesday afternoon. Tekippe was convicted of cocaine possession, misconduct in office and several counts of theft.
Tekippe will remain out of jail on bond while his attorneys conduct an appeal.