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Loop News – <\/span>A former police officer in Puerto Rico was sentenced to eight years in prison on Tuesday for stealing 54 guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition from the Puerto Rico Police Bureau (PRPB) headquarters in Guayama.<\/span><\/p>

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William Cintr\u00f3n-Rivera was convicted of multiple firearms violations and tampering with witnesses in April 2023.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors said that Cintr\u00f3n-Rivera, who went by the alias\u00a0\u201cEl Kid\/Kid\u201d\u00a0stole the guns and ammunition from the PRPB headquarters on July 17, 2019, while he was still a police officer.<\/p>

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Prosecutors said Cintr\u00f3n-Rivera attempted to intimidate and corruptly persuade a female to provide false information to federal investigators regarding the nature and duration of their relationship; his whereabouts during the timeframe of the theft; the identity of an alleged informant and their communications.<\/p>

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Cintr\u00f3n-Rivera was arrested in September 2019 after a federal investigation.<\/p>\n

In addition to the prison sentence, Cintr\u00f3n-Rivera was also ordered to forfeit his position as a PRPB officer and to pay $48,624 in restitution to the PRPB.<\/p>

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Loop News – A former police officer in Puerto Rico was sentenced to eight years in prison on Tuesday for stealing 54 guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition from the Puerto Rico Police Bureau (PRPB) headquarters in Guayama. William Cintr\u00f3n-Rivera was convicted of multiple firearms violations and tampering with witnesses in April 2023. 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