Multiple Gun Charges Requiring Mandatory Prison Time Dismissed

In February of 2021 police responded to a motor vehicle crash on a major highway involving serious injuries to all occupants. Our client was identified as the driver. A rear seat passenger was seen reaching for a backpack and the front passenger was unconscious. EMT’s arrived and transported the occupants to a local hospital. When searching the backpack for officer safety purposes one officer touched a heavy metal object he believed to be a firearm. A query indicated that none of the occupants had a license to carry a firearm. The officers applied for and obtained a search warrant. They seized the weapon. It was loaded. The serial number had been defaced. Our client was charged with carrying a firearm under G.L. c. 269 section 10a, carrying a loaded gun G.L. c. 269 section 10n, receiving a firearm with a defaced serial number G.L. c. 269 section 11, possessing a large capacity firearm G.L. c. 269 section 10m and being a felon with one prior violent crime or drug crime in violation of G.L. c. 10g. Today, following an argument on a motion to dismiss all charges were dismissed.

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