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North Randall police Officer Kevin Lumpkin was indicted Wednesday and charged with selling firearms to felons.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A North Randall police officer arrested in July after the FBI said he sold firearms to felons was indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday.
Kevin Lumpkin, 29, is charged with two counts of unlawful sale of firearms to a felon. Prosecutors say Lumpkin knew that the two people he sold guns to, identified as "C.K." and "M.D.", had convictions and that he knew it was illegal for them to own guns.
Lumpkin is on leave from the police department. He was initially held in jail, but Magistrate Judge Greg White put him on house arrest.
According to a criminal complaint filed the day he was arrested, Lumpkin sold one felon a shotgun, two assault rifles, a pistol and a ballistic vest, among other items. He sold another felon a Ruger pistol, the complaint states.
The complaint also says that Lumpkin, while in uniform, got into a fight with one of the gun buyers in 2012 and fired his service weapon at a wall.
In 2013, Cleveland police found boxes for two of the weapons when they were investigating a domestic violence complaint, the complaint says. A pistol was recovered and traced to Lumpkin in April 2014, when Solon police pulled over a suspect who had an outstanding warrant.
Lumpkin was hired at the North Randall police department in March 2011.
His personnel record shows that he has been reprimanded twice. Once was in March 2012, when he did not respond to a service call because he was giving an off-duty officer a ride out of the village.
The other was in November 2012, when he was disciplined for being disruptive to a dispatcher when she confronted him about spitting in a garbage can.
Jay Milano, Lumpkin's attorney, did not immediately return a phone call.