{"id":264693,"date":"2026-04-24T18:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T18:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/264693\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T18:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T18:21:09","slug":"former-dallas-police-department-sergeant-sentenced-to-over-2-years-for-selling-stolen-service-weapons-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/264693\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Dallas Police Department sergeant sentenced to over 2 years for selling stolen service weapons, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former Dallas Police Department sergeant will spend over two years in prison for selling stolen service weapons, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Thomas Fry, 53, of Royse City, was sentenced to 28 months after being found guilty of possession and sale of a stolen firearm. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This police officer violated his oath and the public&#8217;s trust when he chose to commit a crime,&#8221; said U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Ryan Raybould.<\/p>\n<p>Court records revealed that Fry, who was working as a sergeant for DPD, confessed to three separate occasions where he took a firearm owned by DPD, knowing that it was stolen, and sold it to an Oklahoma pawn shop in June and July of 2022. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This case strikes at the core of public trust,&#8221; Special Agent in Charge of ATF Dallas Brian Garner, said. &#8220;The very individuals entrusted to safeguard our communities must be held to the highest standard.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Garner said Fry&#8217;s sentence shows that no one is above the law and those who abuse their power will be held accountable for their actions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former Dallas Police Department sergeant will spend over two years in prison for selling stolen service weapons,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,4081,14211,4437],"class_list":["post-264693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-police-department","tag-gun","tag-prison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}