Gun store owner pulls gun, foils robbery

**CHAUKA** · September 19th, 2007, 11:07 AM

This is from Post Gazette.com:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07262/818763-100.stm

Gun store owner pulls gun, foils robbery
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
By Torsten Ove, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A Lawrence County gun store owner confronted by an armed robber yesterday grabbed his own gun and foiled the attempt, sending the suspect running out of the shop.

"I always planned for this," said Donald Pieri, 60, owner of Triangle Gun Shop in Perry Township. "You have to think it out."

State police charged Jeffrey J. Ierino, 32, of Wampum, Lawrence County, with attempted robbery and other offenses after tracking him to his house.

Mr. Pieri was sitting behind the counter talking with PennDOT consultant Paul Butera, 57, about a road project outside the shop when the masked gunman walked in at 11:24 a.m.

The suspect waved a semiautomatic in their faces, then tossed a bag to Mr. Pieri and told him to fill it with pistols.

At first, Mr. Pieri thought it was a prank.

"I actually had a smirk on my face," he said today at his shop.

But when he realized it wasn't a joke, he quickly dived behind a door leading into the back room and retrieved his own pistol from his office desk.

He said the sudden move startled the gunman enough so that he couldn't get off a shot. Instead, the masked man ran away.

State police thought yesterday that he jumped into a car driven by an accomplice, but today they think Mr. Ierino was acting alone and drove the getaway car himself.

Troopers were looking today for the gun outside the shop, where they think Mr. Ierino threw it as he ran.

He proved fairly easy to catch. Mr. Pieri said many people in the area had reported seeing a suspicious car driving around the shop in the morning, and at least two witnesses wrote down the license plate.

Within a couple of hours, troopers tracked Mr. Ierino to his house, but they said he ran off when they showed up.

They caught him about a block away at a bar.

Mr. Ierino, who has a long criminal record, is charged with attempted robbery, attempted theft, illegal possession of a gun, carrying a gun without a license, terroristic threats and simple assault.

He was being held in the Lawrence County Jail on a $25,000 bond

**Azzy** · September 19th, 2007, 12:35 PM

Who robs a gun store that isnt a lot more heavily armed than the guys behind the counter?

Oh.. an idiot.

**LorDiego01** · September 19th, 2007, 12:39 PM

thats funny how they now seem to throw "terror" charges at anything.

I guess now they could by-pass the courts system and just send him off to a hole in the ground.

Either way, what a moron, I hope he doesn't live long enough to pass on his retarded genes.

**vic2367** · September 19th, 2007, 03:05 PM

incredibley stupid moron,,,

**Emptymag** · September 19th, 2007, 04:14 PM

Mr. Ierino, who has a long criminal record, is charged with attempted robbery, attempted theft, illegal possession of a gun, carrying a gun without a license, terroristic threats and simple assault.

I think what they are trying to say here is "He's a harmless victim of society, and we're gonna let him go because he have high hopes that he will learn from his mistake this time, and will surely change his ways."

And WHY THE F@CK did the shop owner have to "dive behind a door leading into the back room and retrieved his own pistol from his office desk." ???
THE PISTOL DID HIM ABSOLUTELY NO GOOD IN THE DESK. The only reason nobody got hurt is because, by "running away", he screwed up the bad guy's plan and luckily he got flustered and left.

**GRoPA** · September 19th, 2007, 05:24 PM

Too bad the shop owner didn't get to paint the walls with that retard.

**CHAUKA** · September 19th, 2007, 05:47 PM

I hope this Guy ( Gun Shop Owner ) learned a lesson today.

Have a gun on his hip!!!

That A - Hole Robber is lucky he is in one piece.

**D-FENS** · September 19th, 2007, 06:29 PM

Originally Posted by GUNRUNNERS OF PA

Too bad the shop owner didn't get to paint the walls with that retard.

You think it sucks cleaning guns off after a range visit? Try cleaning the blood, guts and brains of an unknown purity off of them.

/Steel Shield anyone?

**MOUNTAINORACLE** · September 20th, 2007, 06:03 AM

http://www.ncnewsmedia.com/archive/t...ery/image0.htm

Check this link out to the local newspaper. I have known Don for at least 35 years and he is great to do business with.

In his interview with the paper he answered the question as to why he doesn't carry while working in the. I will not make the statement that I agree or disagree with his reasoning. When I work in a gun shop, I won't tell you whether I am carrying or not, it's your call.

oracle

**mikepro8** · September 28th, 2007, 02:10 PM

Originally Posted by LorDiego01

thats funny how they now seem to throw "terror" charges at anything.

I guess now they could by-pass the courts system and just send him off to a hole in the ground.

Either way, what a moron, I hope he doesn't live long enough to pass on his retarded genes.

Not "terror charges," just the way the crimes code violation is worded. It has been worded that way LONG before terrorism became a buzz word. Terrorisic threats is charged quite often, actually. "I am going to kill you." = Terroristic threats. Read up on it.

http://members.aol.com/StatutesP8/18PA2706.html