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'In Plain Sight': Gun Sighting Grants Brookline Man OUI, Weapons Charges 'In Plain Sight': Gun Sighting Grants Brookline Man OUI, Weapons Charges
'In Plain Sight': Gun Sighting Grants Brookline Man OUI, Weapons Charges A Massachusetts State Trooper's quick eye and a Brookline man's poor hiding skills resulted in him getting slapped with several weapons and drug-related charges.  Stewart Silvestri, age 24, was arrested after a Trooper spotted a gun "in plain sight" in Silvestri's car while at a weigh station on I-95 in Rowley on Saturday night, Oct. 15, State Police said. Not only did the Trooper see the handgun along with a 50-round drum magazine, he also saw another gun under Silvestri's driver seat.  Silvestri was then pulled from the car, in which Troopers found seven polymer handguns and one AR-style…

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by David Cifarelli
Police & Fire
Plainclothes Officer Shot Sitting In Car Near Boston School Playground: Police Plainclothes Officer Shot Sitting In Car Near Boston School Playground: Police
Plainclothes Officer Shot Sitting In Car Near Boston School Playground: Police A Boston police officer somehow escaped injury after officials said a man shot him multiple times over the weekend while he sat in his car near an elementary school.  Alberto Polanco, 20, of Roxbury, is charged in the alleged attack just after 6 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 25, the Boston Police Department said.  The officer was in his unmarked patrol car at 43 Waumbeck Street near Trotter Elementary School when police say Polanco walked over and started firing. He then ran away, authorities said. The officer wasn't injured in the shooting, and he did not return fire, officials said…

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by Josh Lanier