Bayonet spotted inside car by Boston police leads to gun arrest

[Reptile]

As police in Boston stopped a car for a stolen license plate, they spotted a large bayonet on the floor of the backseat, authorities said.

The stop ended with one man under arrest on a gun charge.

Officers on patrol around 9:50 p.m. Saturday in the area of Blue Hill Avenue and Livingston Street spotted a car with a stolen license plate.

Police stopped the car.

“As officers made contact with the motor vehicle, they observed a large bayonet on the floor of the backseat,” police said.

The driver, identified as 40-year-old Carolena Shephard, and her passenger, identified as 36-year-old Corey Hinds, were both removed from the car.

“Officers performed a pat frisk of Mr. Hinds and immediately felt a hard object that officers believed to be a firearm,” police said. “Officers recovered a loaded Jennings Firearm .22 caliber long rifle with six rounds in the magazine.”

Hinds was arrested and charged with unlawful possession of a firearm and unlawful possession of ammunition. The bayonet was recovered and removed from the vehicle.

Shepard was arrested after police found that her license had been suspended. She had a default warrant out of Brighton District Court as well, police said.

Bayonet spotted inside car by Boston police leads to gun arrest

The bayonet was located inside the vehicle during a traffic stop, police said.

www.masslive.com

A Jennings with a bayonet mount is extra killy.

 

[Asaltweapon]

Rollins will let him walk.

 

[67ray]

A two-fer!!
.

 

[Welder1]

I just wanted to know what kind of bayonet it was. Is it for sale?

 

[Broc]

Officers performed a pat frisk of Mr. Hinds and immediately felt a hard object that officers believed to be a firearm,”

"Sir, is that another bayonet or are you happy to see me?"

 

[Upland]

Jennings .22 the firearm choice of the gentleman with a active warrant.

 

[Shire Guy]

Thank god they got another bayonet off the streets, weapon of war and all that.

 

[Chevy 2 65]

illegal search. But yes, the court ruled otherwise.

 

[Dennis in MA]

Yep. I’m pretty sure a bayo, or a machete, or a hoe, on the floorboards isn’t prolly-cuz.

 

[Waher]

No charge for violating Boston's knife ordinance? Or is that only for stealing knives from contractors visiting City Hall to pay for permits?

 

[kalash]

Fix bayonets.... to your Jennings .22s!

 

[chris_1001]

I still have mine (J22). Paid $55 out the door. No bayonet though. I got screwed!

 

[beaker]

Jennings .22, what a POS, the bayo is way more dangerous most likely....

 

[chris_1001]

Jennings .22, what a POS, the bayo is way more dangerous most likely....

Agree.

 

[AFAR/PFAR]

meh all the way around. POS people not taking care of their suspended license and whatever is going on with the plate, POS laws, and POS cops enforcing said laws.

 

[42!]

Another misleading headline from reptile, stopped and arrested for a stolen plate, gun found when the frisked him.

 

[Quite_Exasperated]

The only way a J22 is dangerous is if someone throws one at you..

 

[kalash]

The only way a J22 is dangerous is if someone throws one at you..

Or if they have a bayonet on it!

 

[mikeyp]

Wait, are bayonets illegal in Mass(IBTEIIIM)? And that would warrant a search?

 

[TZCHRIS]

Stolen plate/car
They are tossing that car weather or not they see anything? I really don't know what the bayonet has to do with it? Could have been a double ended D do in the back, same result.

 

[42!]

Stolen plate/car
They are tossing that car weather or not they see anything? I really don't know what the bayonet has to do with it? Could have been a double ended D do in the back, same result.

My point exactly, and the gun wasn't in the car, it was on his person. They found it when they cuffed and frisked him. The bayonet had nothing to do with it. Reptile BS.

 

[Twigg]

That should stop the wave of drive by bayonettings.

 

[Waher]

really don't know what the bayonet has to do with it?

This f***ery:

Boston Revised Ordinance Passes, Permits Recreational Knife Use and Carry | American Knife and Tool Institute

AKTI lobbied for changes in Boston’s knife ordinance that banned knives with blades in excess of 2-1/2 inches. The changed ordinance allows for use of recreational knives with longer blades.

www.akti.org

 

[TZCHRIS]

Sounds like it was a "recreational " bayonet.....?

 

[snax]

illegal search. But yes, the court ruled otherwise.

I think a bayonet is gun paraphernalia, much like a Phillies cigar is drug paraphernalia.

 

[Dennis in MA]

Sounds like it was a "recreational " bayonet.....?

“What’s your recreation?”

“Repelling Hessian soldiers.”

 

[Parker Schreiber]

Wait, are bayonets illegal in Mass(IBTEIIIM)? And that would warrant a search?

Bayonets are not "per se" illegal in all of Massachusetts, but it's a non-criminal violation to have in the passenger compartment of a vehicle in Boston:

16-45.1 Carrying of Weapons Prohibited.

Legal publisher offering ordinance codification services for local governments, specializing in providing codes of ordinances in print and on the Internet

codelibrary.amlegal.com

The police will argue that the presence of one in clear view raises a reasonable suspicion that the driver was armed and dangerous. That in turn would justify a "stop and frisk." So I would expect an illegal search argument to lose in court.

I own a 1907 Wilkinson Bayonet, but I don't have an Enfield (or anything else) on which to mount it.

 

[MisterHappy]

Bayonets are scary. I was at the Lexington Green one April morning, and when the King's soldiers, with fixed bayonets, advanced on the uppity punks (my ancestors were Loyalists....it's a confusing time for me.....) it was scary.

Reminds me of a pic from a few years back: one of the "prizes" on a Worcester gun "buy-back" that the MD that instigated it posed with, was an Arisaka, with bayo. Thank G-d that was removed from the streets.

 

[Sterg]

Had to google Jennings .22. I’ll leave this here. Pot metal as Sootch00 calls it.

View: https://youtu.be/_fDGT1bm-5A

 

[426wedge]

"Sir, is that another bayonet or are you happy to see me?"

I think a small amount of us get that one...