LEOMINSTER — A motorized vehicle cease has led to the arrest of a person allegedly linked to an armed theft at a Cumberland Farms in Fitchburg, State Police mentioned Thursday.
Eddie Colon, 18, of Fitchburg was stopped in a Sears parking zone in a grey Nissan Altima round 11:33 a.m. Wednesday as a result of his automobile had no entrance license plate. After Colon was noticed “moving erratically and reaching around the front seat area,” he was faraway from the automobile by Massachusetts State Trooper Ryan Tobin, who then searched Colon and the automobile and recovered a loaded handgun with a laser sight in addition to a masks, different articles of clothes, a bag containing marijuana above the authorized restrict to own and a liquid prescription bottle in another person’s title, in line with State Police.
State Police mentioned the firearm was present in a fanny pack strapped round Colon’s chest. Colon, who was not licensed to hold a firearm or have ammunition, was charged with illegal possession of each.
When Colon was faraway from the automobile, State Police mentioned a male passenger who lied about his title fled the scene. An investigation into the passenger’s id is ongoing.
Later, State Police mentioned it was decided that Colon had hooked up a license plate stole from one other automobile to the rear of the Altima. He was moreover charged with improper storage of a firearm, illegal possession of a Class D narcotic, larceny, a quantity plate violation, possession of a stolen RMV doc and driving an unregistered and uninsured motorized vehicle.
Further investigation carried out by Tobin and Massachusetts State Trooper Nolan Giroux together with the Fitchburg Police Department on the MSP Leominster barracks additionally led to proof that linked Colon to the Tuesday night time theft of a Cumberland Farms in Fitchburg, in line with State Police. A member of the State Police Ballistics Unit processed the gun, journal and ammunition and secured them as proof.
The FPD is predicted to cost Colon within the armed theft, in line with MSP. Colon was arraigned in Leominster District Court.
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