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Police: Woburn man wanted to use meat cleaver to express opposition to the death penalty outside the Tsarnaev hearing
By adamg on Wed, 06/24/2015 - 10:48pm
Boston Police report arresting a Woburn man they say drove down to the Moakley Courthouse for a cleaver-enhanced death-penalty protest as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was being sentenced.
Patrick Carrerio, 24, had no time to use the cleaver as a protest instrument, after arriving at the courthouse shortly after 1 p.m., however:
Officers observed the vehicle drive past a security check point and jump a curb in order to enter a restricted area. As a result, officers promptly stopped the vehicle. In speaking to the operator, officers learned the suspect had driven to the courthouse to express his opposition and dissent with the death penalty. A search of the vehicle enabled officers to see and take possession of what appeared to be a meat cleaver. At no point did the suspect use or threaten anyone with the weapon.
Police did not say how Carrerio planned to use the cleaver as part of a protest. He was charged with unlawful possession of a dangerous weapon (meat cleaver), failure to stop for a police officer and disorderly conduct, police say.
Innocent, etc.
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It's illegal to own a meat cleaver?
?
well
fighting abuse of kitchen tools with more kitchen tools
You think something not being
You think something not being illegal actually stops them from charging someone with something? Heh.
Sounds
like bullshit to me. The cleaver charge is ridiculous.
P.S.,
I have no issues with the death penalty pertaining to this case.
Disorderly Conduct
Can any lawyer types speak to the charge of disorderly conduct in this situation? If I'm reading the language correctly,
there isn't anything that fits his behavior at the time of arrest. I was having a discussion with someone recently who alluded to disorderly conduct having very specific language and thresholds that would justify an arrest. This person didn't say much in regard to just what would trigger it, but I said wanton might loosely fit the bill for something of this, but very, very loosely. It just seems like a catch all.
Not that I want a guy running around with a cleaver, or anything.
Also, Adam, I don't see the need for the typical 'Innocent, etc.' tag on this one.
The charge comes from
The charge comes from paragraph (b) of C272 s53A.
"(b) Disorderly persons and disturbers of the peace, for the first offense, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $150. On a second or subsequent offense, such person shall be punished by imprisonment in a jail or house of correction for not more than 6 months, or by a fine of not more than $200, or by both such fine and imprisonment."
Generally, a disorderly person is one who causes public inconvenience, annoyance, or alarm. The act of driving a vehicle, over a sidewalk, into a secured area during the events that were transpiring would lead to an arrest under the dual theories of both public annoyance and creating alarm amongst the bystanders, pedestrians, and the anti-death penalty protesters on the sidewalk.
That doesn't sound right..
That doesn't sound right...usually a legal definition is found somewhere in the legislation for "disturbers of the peace", unless it's found in another statute somewhere. Everything else I'm reading in that regard has to do with sentencing someone who is convicted.
Definitely sounds like a
Definitely sounds like a Woburn driver. I don't know what it is about that town that makes people so scary on the road.
It was initially reported
It was initially reported that he was driving an SUV without license plates. Once authorities had him sitting on the ground, he was smirking like he thought his antics were some funny prank that his friends would get a kick out of when they saw it on tv. 100% disrespectful and clearly not the brightest bulb.