A 56-year-old veteran peace officer has been convicted of federal firearms and mail fraud violations in the Eastern District of Texas announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
Harry Leroy Kelley, a Captain with the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office, was found guilty by a jury of possession of stolen ammunition and two counts of conspiracy to commit mail fraud following a two-week trial before U.S. District Judge Thad Heartfield.
According to information presented in court, from 1992 to 2009, Kelley served almost exclusively as a police officer for the Cleveland Police Department in Liberty County, Texas, and for a short time in 2009, as a captain with the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office. During a portion of that time, Kelley had control over Cleveland Police Department’s firing range and at least 100,000 rounds of 40 caliber hollow-point semi-automatic ammunition.
Those rounds had been specifically manufactured for use by law enforcement officers and were provided to Kelley for use by federal agents who were required to qualify at the firing range.
Instead of using the rounds of ammunition for the intended purpose of qualifying Cleveland Police Department law enforcement officers at the range, Kelley instead converted the ammunition for his own use by exchanging it for 86 new weapons which he could sell through his business, K Ventures, and providing some of that same ammunition to customers who purchased new firearms from K Ventures.
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