Men With Gun Chase Charlestown Resident Into His Home: Police

CHARLESTOWN, MA — One teen was arrested and police are still looking for another man after the two allegedly showed a Charlestown man guns and then tried to rob him on Main Street. The man later told police they then chased him into his home.

At 6:52 a.m. on Tuesday, June 26, a man called 911 to report two men had showed a weapon and then tried to rob them on the 400 block of Main Street. When he ran into his nearby home to escape them, they followed him into his home and stole several things before taking off.

He described the two men as black and wearing puffy jackets and said he last saw them running down Baldwin Street toward Bunker Hill Street.

While searching the area, officers found a man who matched the description of one of the suspects, hiding behind a car in the area of Baldwin and Medford Streets.

Because they were afraid he had a weapon officers told the man to place his hands over his head. When the man refused, officers forced the man physically to subdue, according to police.

Police said they did not end up finding a weapon on him. They did find several personal papers and credit cards belonging to that man who lived in the area of St. Martin Street. While returning the personal papers and credit cards to its rightful owner, the owner of the stolen property directed officers to the car the items had been stolen from. While looking through the car, officers observed and confiscated a black handgun, later shown to be a pellet gun.

Officers arrested Kewin Paul, 19, of Boston and charged him with armed home invasion, assault by means of a dangerous weapon (gun) and receiving stolen property.

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