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East Boston man held on $100,000 bail for alleged arsenal, IEDs
By adamg on Mon, 09/21/2015 - 1:42pm
Seized weapons. Photo by BPD.
A judge today agreed with prosecutors to set the high bail for Nicholas Marchesi, 27, after police armed with a search warrant say they found a large cache of guns and rifles, ammunition, drugs and two BB-filled improvised explosive devices in his Eutaw Street home on Friday.
Marchesi's attorney asked East Boston Municipal Court Judge John McDonald to set bail at just $1,000 to $5,000, saying many of the weapons will prove to be BB guns or antiques not covered by the state gun-licensing requirements. And she said Marchesi's mother, who was in court along with Marchesi's sister, would not post even that amount until after her son got into a secure center for treatment of his heroin addiction.
Marchesi was charged with numerous counts of illegal possession of a firearm, illegal possession of ammunition, possession of a large-capacity feeding device and various drug charges, in addition to possession of the IEDs. The Boston Police bomb squad was called in to handle those, assistant District Attorney Emily Hamrock said.
As Hamrock read off an inventory of all the weapons and types of ammunition, Marchesi vigorously shook his head no as he stood in the dock.
Hamrock said the charges were serious enough to warrant high bail and that Marchesi's case will likely go before a grand jury.
Innocent, etc.
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Prove to be BB Guns?
Um, what? Wouldn't that have been pretty easy for the police to determine when they cataloged everything ? Either way, this guy is pretty fucked.
Seems like the bad old days are back.
I just cannot get over how almost every horrendous story I hear these days comes back to the same thing:
heroin (or derivatives or formatives thereof).
This sounds so much to me like the crack/cocaine days of the late 80s and 90s. It is depressing as hell.
Man Confused
Lives on Eutaw Street, Armed like he lives way, way, way off of a street in Utah.
Brilliant - almost spit out my drink.
Mr. Nizzie Bean is quite the troubled individual. For a while, he was tagging everything with "End The Fed". His postings and allegiances do appear to be that of an anarchist, supporting the Clive Bundy Ranch and the like. He has been on the radar of law enforcement for quite some time. I do hope he stays away. Even if he gets sober, he may still indulge "collecting" weapons.
anarchist might be a stretch.
anarchist might be a stretch.
"End the fed" and gigantic caches of heavy weapons screams tea party libertarian.
Clearly you weren't around in
Clearly you weren't around in the 1960s/1970s when the SDS, SLA, Weathermen, & Black Panthers (all anti-gov Marxists) were armed to the teeth and blowing stuff up.
Please provide evidence of a link
Yes, that was the case then.
No, that isn't the case now.
Let's consult the Google for you
http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/20/justice/ohio-bridge-plot-sentencing/
What does your link show?
it says nothing at all about the alleged terrorists'' political motivations (if they had any).
More backstory:http://www
More backstory:
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2012/05/bridge_bomb_plot_suspec...
$100,000
Between him on Eutaw and the kid fatally stabbed a block away, I feel like living in a bubble right now. An armored bubble.
Brilliant;
He has fulfilled his fears of an authoritarian government screwing him over and taking away his freedom.
Antiques?
I don't see any muzzle-loaders there - those are pretty much the only kind of antiques that are exempt from the rules. The exemptions were for weapons with a complicated hand-loading sequence, not old pistols and rifles.
I have an antique .22 - it is nearly 100 years old. It looks quite a bit like the gun with the scope just above the smaller weaponry pieces in the picture (except without the scope). My grandfather built it from a kit, cutting and carving the stock himself, but it isn't exempt from MA gun laws due to age because it is still a rifle that takes stock ammunition and is easy to load.
Unless this guy and his lawyer have drunk the fool-aid that a .22 rifle is "the same as a pellet gun". I seem to recall some fool anon trying to argue that.
How does the lawyer explain the home made hand grenades?
Anything made prior to 1899
Anything made prior to 1899 is not considered a firearm in MA even if center-fire cartridge capable. Possession of ammunition for those curio items is however a big no no without a license.
Thanks
Of course, I'm betting that 1899 was arbitrary and not technology-based.
I do remember when the trigger lock and storage regulations went through the legislature. There was an 11th hour modification because the people making the law knew so little about weapons that they didn't realize that they would turn the reenactments on Patriot's Day into illegal activities, as well as make it very difficult to keep a flintlock or a musket at all.