In case you’re new to this latest tawdry tale, the colonel’s 22-year-old son ingested a bad ice cube late on the evening of Feb. 27.
howiecarrshow.com
... the cops did find five firearms in the SUV, including two rifles
and an unregistered Glock 17 that “has been unidentified on the registered owner.”
The quoted text in that excerpt would have come from a Barnstable PD PIO.
If there were two rifles in the front passenger seat area when the guy
was drunk, half hanging out of his car door...
- Were they lo-cap or hi-cap?
- Were they full-length; versus takedown models or broken into lowers and uppers?
- Where were they stored while the son was getting drunk in the pub?
- Where were they transported between the range and the pub?
An idiot would go into a bar and get drunk, leaving full-length rifles in the front seat
with their stocks in the passenger footwell and their muzzles someplace up by the seat back
(cased or uncased).
A
total idiot would transport hi-cap rifles in the passenger compartment
between the range and a bar. Someone remind me - is it even
possible to do that legally?
(ETA: I mean, if the car has a trunk or cargo compartment, they have to be transported there.
I don't remember the workaround (if any) if the vehicle lacks those feature).
And if they
were hi-cap rifles, what
kind of idiot transports them legally (well put-away),
and then
moves them into the front seat area either before going in to a bar to get drunk,
or after getting drunk in a bar, before either planning to sleep it off before driving,
or before planning to drive.
The linked article continues...
The Barnstable PD produced two reports on the incident, two months apart.
We still haven’t seen the first one. The second report says the guns were unloaded.
No word on how the firearms are described in the initial one that they’re still refusing to release.
The report we do have in hand was written by one of the responding cops, Eric J. Rogorzenski.
In an incredible coincidence, the 2018 Town of Barnstable payroll indicates that
both Officer Rogorzesnki and defendant Mason were summer cops –
“Seas Community Service Officers.”
Nothing to see here folks, move along.
Crucial questions:
Was the other responding cop working for Barnstable PD in summer 2018?
If so, he would also have recognized the son for who he was.
Will it turn out that Rogorzenski was the initial LEO to encounter the drunken son
while patrolling the pub's parking lot? Because the narrative in the second report
is that the cop started out with "are you OK sir? Do you need medical assistance?".
That's wouldn't have been the opening conversational gambit if the first cop who saw the son
had worked with him all summer long four years ago as summer cops.
Learning the answers to these questions allows us to evaluate the veracity of the
(two) reports. The second report lays out a narrative that it was an arms-length
encounter, not knowing that the drunk was the son of the most senior cop in Mass.
If the cops would have recognized him on sight,
yet the reports totally whistle past that graveyard,
that makes everything
worse.
News Flash II: Mr. Howard Carr is not too sharp.
ETA:
He's utter
death on hypocrisy,
and has memorized every hack's in-laws' surnames
(so that he can recognize nepotism in his sleep).
I'd have figured you'd like that.
Continuing to quote from that article:
What an interesting crew turned out for Mason’s hearing. Sitting in the back of the courtroom
was Barnstable Lt. Mark Mellyn, who bought his house in Centerville from the future colonel,
Christopher Mason.
Also in attendance was the local soon-to-be-getting-a-pay raise $184,694-a-year Judge John Julian.
He’s a lifelong payroll patriot, whose brother Jim was a second-generation hack for Billy Bulger,
Whitey’s little brother.
Jim Julian still remains on the UMass payroll for $419,259 a year.
And there's plenty more.
But
you knew all this.