A Texas man caught with a stockpile of guns in Massachusetts has been hit with dozens of criminal charges.
The man, 59-year-old Francho Bradley, was staying at the Marriott Residence Inn in Tewksbury when he called the police to report an attempted break-in to his room.
Bradley told officers that there was an unsecured gun in a drawer inside the room and said he “didn’t want the gun to get into the wrong hands,” according to a police report.
When officers entered the room, they immediately saw several rifles that were wrapped in a green flight suit and laid on the room’s floor.
They saw no signs of a break-in.
Officers arrested Bradley and his common-law wife, 40-year-old Adrianne Jennings, when they returned to the hotel. Bradley has a firearms license from Texas but the police said it isn’t valid in Massachusetts.
Among the other items officers discovered were cellphones, laptop computers, tactical vests, and dozens of rounds of ammunition.
Bradley admitted the weapons and other items were his but said he “needed them with him for his mission.”
“Francho went on to say he can’t tell us what he does for work or why he has all the guns with him, but that he is down in this area working for a government agency that is dealing with a virus,” officers wrote in the report.
“When all is said and done, the majority of the items that the commonwealth alludes to were not real working items,” Normandin claimed.
Jennings’s lawyer said none of the guns belonged to her.
Bradley and Jennings were later charged with a number of crimes, including eight counts of possession of large-capacity firearms each as well as three counts of possession of an infernal machine.
They’re being held without bail until a hearing scheduled for Friday, the judge said.
