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Related: About this forumPolice feared a mass shooting in alleged Pokémon plot
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Police said the arrests of James Stumbo and Kevin Norton over the weekend on gun charges prevented a potential tragedy.
We can never read someones mind, Police Superintendent Paul A. Fitzgerald said, when asked what the men intended to do with their guns. What we can read is what they were saying and the actions that they took, bringing the weapons they were showing online as a threat.
Police said they worked on the case with Bostons Joint Terrorism Task Force, a partnership that includes federal agents.
That could have been a mass shooting, Fitzgerald said. So obviously the federal agencies were concerned with that.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/08/24/pokemon-shooting-plot-suspects-set-for-arraignment/rbmvQaA9jc7ONgdpnQUGcN/story.html
Police said the arrests of James Stumbo and Kevin Norton over the weekend on gun charges prevented a potential tragedy.
We can never read someones mind, Police Superintendent Paul A. Fitzgerald said, when asked what the men intended to do with their guns. What we can read is what they were saying and the actions that they took, bringing the weapons they were showing online as a threat.
Police said they worked on the case with Bostons Joint Terrorism Task Force, a partnership that includes federal agents.
That could have been a mass shooting, Fitzgerald said. So obviously the federal agencies were concerned with that.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/08/24/pokemon-shooting-plot-suspects-set-for-arraignment/rbmvQaA9jc7ONgdpnQUGcN/story.html
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Police feared a mass shooting in alleged Pokémon plot (Original Post)
SecularMotion
Aug 2015
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CanonRay
(14,858 posts)1. Look at these two mopes...look like they just crawled up out of Mom's basement
This one I just do not get...
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)2. Duplicate. Posted in another gun group or forum.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,576 posts)3. trashed n/t
SecularMotion
(7,981 posts)4. No bail for pair accused of threat at Boston Pokemon tournament
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Two men who police say were heavily armed with multiple weapons and ammunition outside of a Boston Pokemon card tournament last month will be held without bail for at least four months as they await trial.
At a bond hearing covered by the AP, Judge Thomas Horton rejected defense lawyer Steven Goldwyn's arguments that 27-year-old James Stumbo and 18-year-old Kevin Norton were simply engaging in "vague bravado talk" when they posted messages to social networks showing the weaponry and alluding to violence at the tournament. "This is just the way they all spoke to each other," Goldwyn said.
But Assistant District Attorney Jospeh Janezic said the act of driving to the tournament with the guns and ammunition raised the seriousness of those online threats. "It's a different scenario than idle chitchat on a Facebook or Twitter account," he said.
"You're one step away from carrying those out," Judge Thomas Horgan agreed. "This wasn't just kid talk on the computer," he said in denying bail for the pair.
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/09/no-bail-for-pair-accused-of-threat-at-boston-pokemon-tournament/
Two men who police say were heavily armed with multiple weapons and ammunition outside of a Boston Pokemon card tournament last month will be held without bail for at least four months as they await trial.
At a bond hearing covered by the AP, Judge Thomas Horton rejected defense lawyer Steven Goldwyn's arguments that 27-year-old James Stumbo and 18-year-old Kevin Norton were simply engaging in "vague bravado talk" when they posted messages to social networks showing the weaponry and alluding to violence at the tournament. "This is just the way they all spoke to each other," Goldwyn said.
But Assistant District Attorney Jospeh Janezic said the act of driving to the tournament with the guns and ammunition raised the seriousness of those online threats. "It's a different scenario than idle chitchat on a Facebook or Twitter account," he said.
"You're one step away from carrying those out," Judge Thomas Horgan agreed. "This wasn't just kid talk on the computer," he said in denying bail for the pair.
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/09/no-bail-for-pair-accused-of-threat-at-boston-pokemon-tournament/