The Suffolk County District Attorney's office today dropped charges against a Watertown man who created what police said was a "panic" on a 66 bus, because the bullets he was wearing around his waist weren't real. In a statement, the DA's office says:
Chapter 140, Sect. 121, allows prosecution for unlawful possession of “cartridges or cartridge cases … designed for use in any firearm, rifle or shotgun,†and responding officers acted in an abundance of caution after a 911 call for a man believed to be armed. Based on the totality of circumstances, however, including confirmation that the cartridges on said belt could not and weren’t intended to be fired, prosecutors dismissed the charges at arraignment in Brighton Municipal Court.
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Even a blind squirrel
By Bob Leponge
Mon, 07/13/2015 - 7:24pm
... sometimes find a nut.
And even Markk is sometimes spot on.
It sounds like fake...
By anon
Tue, 07/14/2015 - 11:02am
news, but it's not. I wonder where those passengers were from that they were fearful of late 70s fashion. Remote Nepal villages, remote suburban america, or paranoid schizophrenic? Unless the kid was behaving erratically and threateningly, I dont' see a cause for 911 calls. It's bus 66 to boot.
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