WASHINGTON – A Russian man from West Roxbury, Massachusetts
was arraigned in a Boston court Monday, hours after he was detained in an
intoxicated state by police outside the home of US Secretary of State John
Kerry, where he was taking pictures, the Boston Police Department (BPD) and
court officials said.
Police were called to Kerry’s home in Boston’s upscale
Beacon Hill neighborhood Sunday after State Department security officers
reported that a man was “taking several pictures of the windows outside” the
residence, the Boston Police Department said in a statement.
Kerry was not home
at the time of the incident.
A police officer was quoted by the CBS television station in
Boston as saying the suspect, who has been identified as 29-year-old Vladimir
Romanov, produced a Russian ID card when police asked him for identification.
Romanov was released Monday on his own recognizance on
charges of drinking in public but was ordered held without bail to answer
separate charges in nearby Quincy of assault with a dangerous weapon and in
Waltham of driving while intoxicated, Jessica Bonsignore, who works in the
clerk’s office at the Boston Municipal Court, told RIA Novosti.
Romanov is scheduled to return to the Boston courthouse on
September 25 for a pretrial hearing on the charges stemming from his arrest
outside Kerry’s home, she said.
At the time of his arrest, Romanov was “unsteady on his
feet, with glassy eyes and the smell of alcohol emanating from his breath,” the
BPD said.
Police searched Romanov’s car and found an open container of
alcohol as well as a pellet gun, three mobile phones, a GPS navigation system,
and a black canvas bag containing several CO2 cartridges, Boston police said.
All of the items were seized as evidence, according to the police statement.
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