Police: Man Charged With Gun Possession Asked to be Released for Work

A man arrested on O’Meara Court Sunday and charged with illegal possession of a firearm asked officers if he could be given a citation and allowed to go to work.

“I know how this looks, but the gun [is] not mine,” the man told police, according to a report.

Officers had spoken to the man after getting a report from a Charlestown resident who said that a man matching the suspect’s description had fired shots near her the previous day while she was walking on Monument Street near its intersection with O’Reilly Way. The shots had been so close, she told police “that she could feel the bullets go past her backside.”

Following the incident, the woman told police, she felt that the man was watching her home, prompting police to speak to the man.

Due to the nature of the incident and for the sake of officers’ safety, one of the approaching officers asked the man “if he had anything on him that he shouldn’t,” the report said.

“Just some weed,” the suspect said.

During the pat down, an officer found a hard object that he immediately identified as a handgun. After another officer cuffed the suspect, the first officer pulled out the black revolver which had been reported stolen in Goffstown, N.H. in February 2010, according to the report.

According to the report, officers also found the man in possession of three plastic bags of marijuana.

As a result of the incident, police charged the Roxbury man with trespassing, unlawful possession of a firearm, unlawful possession of ammunition, stealing a firearm and possession of marijuana with the intention to distribute it while in a school zone.