Crime & Safety

Men Charged in Gun Threat Near I-293

Meknear Owm, 23 (at left), and Brendan Leng, 21, were arrested in Manchester Sunday.

Two Nashua men were charged with threatening a group with a gun in Manchester Sunday night.

Meknear Owm, 23 (at left), and Brendan Leng, 21, both of Spit Brook Road, were charged with felony criminal threatening and felony criminal liability, respectively.

Manchester police said the victims approached officers in a pickup truck on near Interstate 293 and told them Owm and Leng chased them in a red Nissan and threatened them with a gun. Police said they stopped Owm and Leng’s vehicle in the Mall of New Hampshire parking lot and found an unloaded .40-caliber gun with a loaded magazine in the vehicle.

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