Gabriel Jäntti

Gabriel Jäntti

Syntymäaika: 23.5.1887

Kuolinaika: 13.11.1926

Location / Place: Helsinki

Rank: Prohibition Detective

Police unit: Helsinki Police Department

Lähteitä: Suomen Poliisilehti 22/1926; Poliisimies 5a/1933

Tapahtumien kuvaus: At night on 13.11.1926, Jäntti and his colleague Detective Matti Laakkonen were at Taivallahti in Helsinki, waiting for the arrival of alcohol smugglers. Sometime between 3 and 4 am two cars with several men arrived, and at the same time a motorboat approached the shore. The men began carrying contraband from the boat to the cars. Jäntti ran out on the pier to arrest them. The smugglers opened fire, and one of their bullets hit Jäntti in the abdomen. The smugglers fled with the boat, leaving the cars and their shipment of alcohol behind for the police to seize. Jäntti died from his wounds on the following morning at the Surgical Hospital of Helsinki. The trial was long and complicated, and at one point even Detective Laakkonen was among those prosecuted. Laakkonen was eventually acquitted. Several trials were held, and a verdict was finally reached on 25.10.1927. The Magistrates Court sentenced both Valter Lindholm and Lauri Ahde, who had driven the cars, to two years in prison as it remained unclear which one of them had shot Detective Jäntti.

Tekijä 1: Lindholm, Valter

Offender 2: Ahde; Lauri

Judgment 1: As it was uncertain who had fired the shot, both suspects were sentenced to a prison term of two years.

Judgment 2: As it was uncertain who had fired the shot, both suspects were sentenced to a prison term of two years.

Memorial plaque: Police University College, Helsinki Police Department