A Hyde Park man with earlier violent convictions is being held with out bail after police say he tried to take a loaded handgun by means of Logan Airport safety.
“It’s incredibly brazen to think that you can move a gun — in this case, a loaded gun — through an airport security machine without it being detected,” District Attorney Kevin Hayden wrote in an announcement following the person’s Thursday arraignment. “It’s sad that this man placed a child in the position of having to witness the result of his brazen and dangerous action.”
Lorenzo Beechman, 36, was arrested Wednesday night at Boston Logan International Airport following an incident the place the Transportation Security Administration says he positioned a carry-on bag containing a Hi-Standard Model B .22 caliber pistol loaded with seven rounds of ammunition onto the safety screening machine belt at a Delta safety checkpoint in terminal A.
On Thursday, he appeared in municipal court docket in East Boston to be formally charged with a 3rd offense of carrying a loaded firearm with out a license, airport safety violations, unlawful possession of a firearm with out a license with a previous violent offense, and unlawful possession of ammunition. Judge Joseph Griffin ordered Beechman held with out bail pending a dangerousness listening to scheduled for Wednesday.
At this listening to, the prosecutor offered additional particulars to the allegation. Beechman, who was touring with a toddler, is accused of stuffing the gun right into a shoebox coated by a brown paper bag that included a few of his different possessions.
TSA personnel detected the gun after which approached Beechman to ask if it was his, to which he allegedly initially agreed after which recanted and stated “No, that’s not my bag. I thought you were talking about another bag.”
This gun was the thirty first detected on the airport this calendar yr, far in extra of the 20 detected in 2018, the 18 detected in 2019 and 2021 and the 11 detected in 2020. The thirtieth gun — a loaded Smith & Wesson M&P 9 Shield 9mm pistol — was detected solely the day earlier than, in response to a tweet by TSA New England spokesman Dan Velez.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”