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WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) A man who worked for a Worcester gun-maker was charged Thursday with stealing two guns, including a loaded semiautomatic pistol later found by a 4-year-old.
Mark W. Cronin, 28, of Worcester, was charged in a federal criminal complaint with stealing a 9mm semiautomatic pistol and a .40-caliber handgun from his employer, Kahr Arms.
Prosecutors contend that Cronin traded the guns for about $80 in cocaine apiece in November and December. Later in December, a 4-year-old found the 9mm pistol in the yard of an apartment building near Main Street, prosecutors said. Worcester police recovered the other weapon during a traffic stop.
Cronin appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Charles Swartwood III, who ordered him detained until a hearing scheduled for Tuesday.
The charges carry a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.
Kahr reported that firearms were missing from shipments to customers in at least 15 instances, including 10 guns missing from one February 1999 package, an agent with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms said in an affidavit filed in the case.
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Mark W. Cronin, 28, of Worcester, was charged in a federal criminal complaint with stealing a 9mm semiautomatic pistol and a .40-caliber handgun from his employer, Kahr Arms.
Prosecutors contend that Cronin traded the guns for about $80 in cocaine apiece in November and December. Later in December, a 4-year-old found the 9mm pistol in the yard of an apartment building near Main Street, prosecutors said. Worcester police recovered the other weapon during a traffic stop.
Cronin appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Charles Swartwood III, who ordered him detained until a hearing scheduled for Tuesday.
The charges carry a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.
Kahr reported that firearms were missing from shipments to customers in at least 15 instances, including 10 guns missing from one February 1999 package, an agent with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms said in an affidavit filed in the case.
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Times have changed, but the nature of man hasn't. That's why I always go to AA, "Alert and Armed".
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