A 15-year-old was traipsing round East Boston with a gun loaded with 11 bullets and a knife when he and two friends received into an argument with an MBTA bus driver as a result of they received on with out paying Friday evening, the Suffolk County District Legal professional’s workplace stories.
The teenager, already going through a separate assault-and-battery cost in Chelsea, was ordered held with out bail at his arraignment in Chelsea Juvenile Courtroom on expenses of being delinquent for 2 counts of assault by way of a harmful weapon, illegal possession of a firearm, illegal possession of a loaded firearm, possession of a large-capacity firearm, manufacturing an untraceable firearm and illegal possession of ammunition, the DA’s workplace stories.
Based on the DA’s workplace, the three teenagers received on an MBTA bus at Bennington and Trident streets round 9:12 p.m., and refused to pay, resulting in an argument with the motive force, whilst he started driving the bus and the three stayed onboard for a couple of half mile:
Because the juveniles exited the bus on the Walley and Gladstone streets bus cease, one of many juveniles threw a cigarette lighter on the driver. The lighter struck the plexiglass partition however didn’t hit the sufferer. The sufferer received up, and as he stood by the bus door the identical juvenile produced a knife whereas stepping towards him.
The juveniles then walked towards Gladstone Road. The sufferer flagged down a police officer and identified the juveniles. The sufferer didn’t maintain any accidents and declined medical consideration.
[Transit Police] officers positioned and arrested the juvenile with out incident. Throughout the arrest, one of many different juveniles provided to take possession of the arrested juvenile’s backpack, which officers wouldn’t permit. Throughout reserving, officers discovered a 9mm pistol with a high-capacity journal containing 11 rounds within the backpack.
The teenager was not named due to his age.
