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Foot chase through Central Square ends with two under arrest on gun, pot charges

Seized. gun. Photo by CPD.Seized gun. Photo by CPD.

Cambridge Police report a plainclothes officer spotted a man appearing to be packing a gun around 9:30 p.m. on Monday. When the officer noticed the man and another man engage in a street transaction of some kind on Mass. Ave. near Sidney, he identified himself, an act to which the pair reacted by trying to run away, only they proved unable to outrun Cambridge officers, police say:

The male [with the gun] fled on foot through Central Square, running into traffic before being taken to the ground and subdued by the detective and other responding officers. In his possession was a backpack containing a firearm for which he could not produce a License to Carry and/or Firearms Identification Card.

A second suspect was then spotted and pursued through Central Square by police before being apprehended.

Also recovered was a bag containing 20 grams of marijuana.

Ramses Canelus, 26, of Roxbury, charged with possession of a lare capacity firearm, disorderly conduction, possession of a Class D drug with intent to distribute, a drug violation near a school or park, conspiracy to violate a drug law, defacing a firearm serial number, carrying a firearm without a license and illegal possession of a firearm.

Daqwan Collins, 17, of Cambridge, was charged with the same offenses, except for disorderly conduct.

Innocent, etc.

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die like the rest.

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"a man appearing to be packing a gun "
"in his possession was a backpack containing a firearm"

This cop has x-ray vision. Now that's cool!

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what a dumbass criminal. He could have just not carried the gun and not prepackaged the pot. With the amount he had on him it would have been a $100 civil violation and a forfeiture of the ganj

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ASAP. Prohibition only makes violent organized crime syndicates fabulously rich. They more than anyone are probably behind continued prohibition. Legalize it, regulate it, tax it.

As for these two, why doesn't this state seriously crack down on ILLEGAL gun owners? It has zero problem harassing legal firearms owners, why don't we treat those who illegally possess a firearm, especially a trafficked gun with altered serial numbers, very harshly? Legal firearm owners aren't and never have been the problem, it's assholes like these two who're the problem.

And on a side note, WTF does Cambridge city hall tolerate some of the crap that goes on within block outside it's front door?

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Sorry, but I don't want more people getting wasted on the streets of Boston. Be responsible and don't smoke it if you want to deter the crime associated with it.

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Sorry, but lol at you thinking smoking weed makes someone "wasted."

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Every year thousands Mexicans are murdered by gangs supplying pot to the US. These deaths could be ended by either changing US drug laws or by stopping pot use in the US; either action would save lives. Are you lol at the people butchered in Mexico too?

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I didn't mean to up vote your comment, but I found it hilarious that you think there is a way to stop marijuana usage by putting up even more legal restrictions and fines on it. As you can see how well that's worked out before, surely.

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Someone needs to stay in school.

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The only people I see "wasted" on the streets of Boston are either drunk or on opiates. You must not know much about "the pot".

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That's like .7 oz. I thought less than an ounce was "not illegal" in Massachusetts.

'Course there's the other stuff like "intent to distribute" (packaged for distribution?), being apprehended in a school zone, the gun thing, that presumably kicked this incident over the edge...

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but it is illegal to distribute, whether that be a joint or a pound.

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