CT-Man arrested for shooting at cans with a BB gun near Dear Leader's motorcade

[Anti Federalist]

Man With BB Gun Near Obama Motorcade Route Arrested: Cops

By Stephanie O'Connell and LeAnne Gendreau

Tuesday, Apr 9, 2013 Updated 7:02 PM EDT

http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/Man-Arrested-with-BB-Gun-While-202049951.html

Bloomfield police took a man into custody on Monday afternoon when he was found with a BB gun near the route President Barack Obama's motorcade was taking, according to police.

Police said on Monday that a man was standing near the intersection of Charter Avenue and Cottage Grove Road while President Obama's motorcade passed and that officers noticed him him pacing back and forth before pulling out what appeared to be rifle.

On Tuesday, police said Joseph Stravinskas, 27, was shooting at cans behind a house about half an hour before the presidential motorcade came by.

President Obama was in Connecticut on Monday afternoon to meet with families who lost loved ones during the school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December.

Then, he delivered an address at the University of Hartford, calling on Congress to bring new gun control proposals to a vote.

Police from several departments were securing the motorcade route and a Simsbury detective heard a noise from the back of a home at Central Avenue and Cottage Grove Road at 5:50 p.m., a few miles away from the university, and went to see if someone was hiding in the woods, police said.

The detective found Stravinskas with what appeared to be a rifle, aiming at cans propped as targets and ordered him to drop the weapon, police said.

When Stravinskas turned, he dropped his aim, ultimately complied with police orders and was taken into custody.

Police seized the gun and determined it was a pellet rifle, police said.

Stravinskas told police he was homeless, had been staying at the 7 Central Avenue for a few days and his actions had nothing to do with the presidential motorcade.

Secret Service also spoke with Stravinskas and officials determined that his actions had nothing to do with the presidential motorcade.

The presidential motorcade came by at 6:20 p.m., without any incidents.

Stravinskas was charged with breach of peace in the second degree, threatening in the second degree and interfering with an officer.

He was held on a $15,000 bond and is due in court on Tuesday.

[tangent4ronpaul]

Stravinskas was charged with breach of peace in the second degree, threatening in the second degree and interfering with an officer.

WTF??? :confused:

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[Anti Federalist]

WTF??? :confused:

-t

He did not assume a properly respectful pose, comrade citizen.

[kcchiefs6465]

He was held on a $15,000 bond and is due in court on Tuesday.
Shaking my damn head. For the homeless man, $1,500 bail might as well be a million. He'll be sitting a while.

On a good note, good to hear they didn't shoot him when he turned with the Daisy.

[TaftFan]

To be fair Obama has a tin can for a brain. Filled with rotten biomass.

[HOLLYWOOD]

John Stossel IS CORRECT... everything is illegal. Lou Rockwell IS CORRECT... Americans live under a "SOFT TOTALITARIAN" government


WTF??? :confused:

-thttp://law.justia.com/codes/connecticut/2005/title53a/sec53a-181.html


2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 53a-181. Breach of the peace in the second degree: Class B misdemeanor.

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Sec. 53a-181. Breach of the peace in the second degree: Class B misdemeanor. (a) A person is guilty of breach of the peace in the second degree when, with intent to cause inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, or recklessly creating a risk thereof, such person: (1) Engages in fighting or in violent, tumultuous or threatening behavior in a public place; or (2) assaults or strikes another; or (3) threatens to commit any crime against another person or such other person's property; or (4) publicly exhibits, distributes, posts up or advertises any offensive, indecent or abusive matter concerning any person; or (5) in a public place, uses abusive or obscene language or makes an obscene gesture; or (6) creates a public and hazardous or physically offensive condition by any act which such person is not licensed or privileged to do. For purposes of this section, "public place" means any area that is used or held out for use by the public whether owned or operated by public or private interests.

(b) Breach of the peace in the second degree is a class B misdemeanor.

(1969, P.A. 828, S. 183; P.A. 92-260, S. 68; P.A. 98-55; Nov. 15 Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-2, S. 6, 9.)

History: P.A. 92-260 amended Subsec. (a) to replace in Subdiv. (6) "public, hazardous or physically offensive condition" with "public and hazardous or physically offensive condition" and amended Subsec. (b) to make a technical change in the name of the offense; P.A. 98-55 amended Subsec. (a) to add Subdiv. (7) re placing a nonfunctional imitation of an explosive or incendiary device in a public place and add definition of "public place" and amended Subsec. (b) to add exception making a violation of Subdiv. (7) a class A misdemeanor; Nov. 15 Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-2 renamed offense by replacing "breach of the peace" with "breach of the peace in the second degree" where appearing, amended Subsec. (a) to delete Subdiv. (7) re placing of a nonfunctional imitation of an explosive or incendiary device in a public place, said provision being reenacted as part of Sec. 53a-180aa by same act, and to make technical changes for purposes of gender neutrality and amended Subsec. (b) to delete exception that made a violation of Subsec. (a)(7) a class A misdemeanor, effective January 1, 2002.

Subdiv. (5) cited. 194 C. 347, 358. Cited. 195 C. 668, 676. Cited. 198 C. 43, 44. Subdiv. (5) cited. 205 C. 456, 475, 476. Subdiv. (2) cited. 214 C. 378, 379. Subdiv. (1) cited. 227 C. 153, 155. Subdiv. (1) cited. 233 C. 903. Subdiv. (1): Does not require proof of actual physical contact on part of defendant with a victim; when applied to speech, parameters of the violent, threatening or tumultuous behavior prohibited by section are consistent with "fighting words"; judgment of appellate court in State v. Szymkiewicz, 36 CA 625 et seq. reversed. 237 C. 613. Subdiv. (5) cited. Id., 613. Subdiv. (5) cited. Id., 633. Subdiv. (3): To avoid invalidation on grounds of overbreadth, judicial gloss adopted that when a police officer is the only person upon whose sensibilities the inflammatory language could have played, a conviction can be supported only for extremely offensive behavior supporting an inference that the actor wished to provoke the policeman to violence. 265 C. 145.

Cited. 1 CA 669, 670. Subdiv. (5): This part of the statute is confined to language which constitutes "fighting" words and defendant's repeated vile, racist and threatening epithets were of such a nature. Id., 669, 678. Subdiv. (1) cited. Id., 709, 714. Statute meets requirements of fair notice to defendant. 6 CA 407, 408, 411, 415. Cited. Id., 407, 415. Cited. 10 CA 499, 500. Subdiv. (2) cited. 12 CA 74, 88, 89. Subdiv. (6) cited. Id., 74, 82, 88, 89. Cited. 13 CA 139, 149. Subdiv. (6) cited. 14 CA 10, 16. Subdiv. (1) cited. Id., 440, 441. Subdiv. (6) cited. 27 CA 103, 105, 110, 113. Subdiv. (5) cited. Id., 103, 110. Cited. 36 CA 625; judgment reversed, see 237 C. 613 et seq. Subdiv. (1) cited. Id., 625-629. Subdiv. (5) cited. Id., 625, 629. Cited. 37 CA 500, 507, 509; judgment reversed in part, see 237 C. 633 et seq. Subdiv. (1) cited. 38 CA 306, 307. Subdiv. (1) cited. 41 CA 847, 848. Subdiv. (3) cited. Id. Subdiv. (5) cited. Id. The distinction that may be drawn between the "fighting words" as contemplated under subdiv. (1) and those under subdiv. (5) can be found "under the totality of the circumstances...which gives rise to the words. Subdiv. (1) proscribes fighting words uttered in a violent, tumultuous or threatening manner, whereas subdiv. (5) proscribes fighting words that tend to induce immediate violence by the person or persons to whom the words are uttered because of their raw effect. The core meaning of subdiv. (5) remains intact-fighting words may arise in different contexts not confined to abusive or obscene language-and is not unconstitutionally vague. 78 CA 98. 78 CA 98. There is no indication that legislature did not intend to create separate crimes prohibited by this section and Sec. 53a-62(a)(2). 81 CA 248.

2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 53a-62. Threatening in the second degree: Class A misdemeanor.

Sec. 53a-62. Threatening in the second degree: Class A misdemeanor. (a) A person is guilty of threatening in the second degree when: (1) By physical threat, such person intentionally places or attempts to place another person in fear of imminent serious physical injury, (2) such person threatens to commit any crime of violence with the intent to terrorize another person, or (3) such person threatens to commit such crime of violence in reckless disregard of the risk of causing such terror.

(b) Threatening in the second degree is a class A misdemeanor.

(1969, P.A. 828, S. 63; Nov. 15 Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-2, S. 8, 9; P.A. 02-97, S. 16.)

History: Nov. 15 Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-2 renamed offense by replacing "threatening" with "threatening in the second degree" where appearing and amended Subsec. (a) to make technical changes, delete Subdiv. (2) re threatening to commit a crime of violence with the intent to terrorize another, to cause evacuation of a building, place of assembly or facility of public transportation, or otherwise to cause serious public inconvenience and delete Subdiv. (3) re threatening to commit such crime in reckless disregard of the risk of causing such terror or inconvenience, said provisions being reenacted as part of Sec. 53a-61aa by same act, effective January 1, 2002; P.A. 02-97 amended Subsec. (a) to designate existing provision re a person, by physical threat, intentionally placing or attempting to place another person in fear of imminent serious physical injury as Subdiv. (1), add Subdiv. (2) re threatening to commit any crime of violence with the intent to terrorize another person and add Subdiv. (3) re threatening to commit such crime of violence in reckless disregard of the risk of causing such terror.

[The Goat]

It isn't going to happen. we're doomed.

[LibertyRevolution]

Here is a CT local news story on it:
http://www.wfsb.com/story/21914446/man-pulls-out-bb-gun-near-president-obamas-motorcade

[Dr.3D]

So if I'm shooting at cans in my backyard and the cops come along, I could be arrested for something I never knew I was doing? What a terrible world we live in.

[heavenlyboy34]

How near is "near the motorcade"? Even if it's a C02 rifle, it's not going to do any harm to the motorcade whatsoever. Another pointless arrest. :P

[Anti Federalist]

John Stossel IS CORRECT... everything is illegal. Lou Rockwell IS CORRECT... Americans live under a "SOFT TOTALITARIAN" government

Which will get get "hard", the crackdown will come, once we're all disarmed.

[tod evans]

Thou shalt bow humbly.................................Or suffer.

[Tod]

How near is "near the motorcade"? Even if it's a C02 rifle, it's not going to do any harm to the motorcade whatsoever. Another pointless arrest. :P

correction: another arrest, the point of which was to drive home the fact that rights for mundanes is an illusion in the eyes of the state.