Lori Consalvo
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Calif.
UPLAND - When Steve Adams was just a cadet with the Police Department, he accidentally shot a hole through a window.
“It happened 27 years ago,” said Adams, now the police chief. “I was the cadet in charge of evidence.” While working in the evidence room, Adams said an officer had checked in several rifles from a domestic-violence case but had left one of them loaded. "(The officer) tied the evidence tag around the trigger guard, and that’s how it got fired by me through the window,” he said.
At the time, Adams said the situation was taken pretty seriously. “I had to work a day without pay as my punishment,” he said.
On Wednesday, Craig Scheu presented the window to Adams at the open house of the new Scheu Companies building, which used to house the Police Department, on East D Street. The window still had the bullet hole in it.
“I used it many times as a training aid to tell people to be honest and tell the truth and that people make mistakes and you can overcome those,” Adams said.