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Man was cruising through Franklin Field with a loaded gun, crack and pot, but it was his tinted windows police say drew their attention
By adamg on Fri, 01/03/2025 - 11:15am
Boston Police report arresting a man for the loaded gun, 70 grams of crack and 1.75 ounces of marijuana they say he had in his car in the Franklin Field development in Dorchester Thursday afternoon.
Police say officers on patrol initially pulled Reymon Lorenzo Cruz, Jr., 21, of Dorchester, over at Stratton and Ames streets around 3:30 p.m. because his car had "excessive window tint." Police say the officers "observed multiple packages of marijuana and paraphernalia inside the vehicle" and that when they asked Lorenzo how much pot he had, he allegedly said "two ounces," which is one more ounce than is legal to carry in public.
At this time, officers requested the operator to exit the vehicle. Upon further investigation, officers recovered fourteen bags of packaged marijuana with each bag stated to contain approximately 3.5 grams. The total weight of the marijuana was determined to be 1.75 ounces. Officers continued their investigation, and recovered a large plastic bag of crack cocaine.
Officers placed the suspect into handcuffs and conducted a search incident to arrest. Officers recovered a firearm which was later determined to be a Sig Sauer P365 with twelve rounds in the magazine and a laser attachment affixed to it.
Lorenzo was charged with unlawful possession of a firearm, second offense, unlawful possession of a loaded firearm, second offense, unlawful possession of ammunition, unlawful possession of a large-capacity feeding device, trafficking between 36 and 100 grams of cocaine and possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, police say.
Lorenzo was scheduled for arraignment today in Dorchester Municipal Court.
Innocent, etc.
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I’m glad there is enforcement
I’m glad there is enforcement of this hazardous practice. As a pedestrian, bicycle operator and car operator tinted windows are an antisocial hazard six ways to Sunday. You need to be able to scan through a nearby car to see traffic, bikes and pedestrians and -gasp- sometimes make eye contact with drivers to be sure they are seeing you.
Sadly this isn't about traffic enforcement
I debated about posting this but here you go. The police often use motor vehicle infractions as a pretext to initiate traffic stops. Window tint violations are particularly popular. The real reason for the stop is to investigate something else, like suspicion of criminal activity, without having a clear justification to pull them over initially.
Pretextual stops are legal. Such stops are often implicated in racial profiling, which is often difficult to prove.
Notice that the cops discovered the drugs and gun while "investigating" the window tint infarction.
Sounds like it was a good idea to pull them over for that, then?
Not to go all pro-cop, but if excessive tint is illegal, then having it is a great big middle finger to the po-po. And if you're so stupid as to hoist a great big middle finger to the po-po, then pulled over you get. Not seeing the problem with this.
Do people get hassled for other stuff because they were pulled over for excessive window tint? Sure they do. Tip-- and lean in close here-- DON'T PUT EXCESSIVE WINDOW TINT ON YOUR CAR. IT SCREAMS "HEY COPS, COME GET ME!"
Good God!
It’s about getting a fire arm and drugs off the street dummy!
So knowing that...
Don't tint your windows...
Magoo sez
HiHo Magoo here just Magoooing about on this fine Friday. In Magoo Adultnsized tricycle Magoo has installed a cool wrap around wind-shield to keep the wind off Magoo’s face during the winter. Magoo has not tinted said wind-shield. Magoo.
Tinted
windows are not flesh. If asshats with illegal things in their cars wanna broadcast their chosen negativity by tinting their windows, more power to them.
I know it can sometimes be pretextual
but I'm glad to see them going after window tint -- it can make road interactions significantly more dangerous.
Not the way to do it
The issue of excessive window tint shouldn't be a police issue at all.
Excessive window tint should be an automatic safety inspection failure. That would be the proper and equitable way to enforce it.
de jure de facto
Window tint is assessed on MA state inspection, so yes, it is "an automatic safety inspection failure."
However, the car mod community keeps a network of "mod-friendly" inspection stations that are known not to fail cars for things like excessive tint and obnoxious exhaust.
And even at the not-particularly-sketchy mechanics, tint isn't lucrative for them. If they note a burned-out bulb or bald tires, the owner will typically overpay them to correct it on the spot so they can pass and be done with it. No one is going to pay them for tint removal.
It Was The Crack
Wrapped for distribution that they were going after. And probably also the likely presence of illegal firearms. BPD doesn't give a rats ass about window tinting.
Re: that headline
https://youtu.be/0IagRZBvLtw?si=w4PHETCStATR_9gO
How are tinted windows passing annual inspection?
Tons of window tint, but they all allegedly passed inspection, and tinted windows preclude a pass. How is this happening?
Two ways that I know about
1 - the old $20 handshake
2 - get a doctor’s exemption for some eye issue that allows you to tint as dark as you want. In MA 35% is the limit and a little lighter than a rear window on an SUV with the factory tint. Anything sub 30% is very obviously not in compliance with the law