Yep, curiouser and curiouser...
From the article:
“...and he didn’t want it to end up in the wrong hands.
What Bradley failed to mention was that he had an entire stash of guns in the room - and what a stash it was! But let’s take a break from this actual news and reflect: a stash of weapons, a hotel room, a video device - doesn’t all this sound strangely familiar? The only difference seems to be that Bradley wasn’t acting alone, and had been staying at the hotel with his girlfriend, Adrianne Jennings.
Photo by Tewksbury PD
The story gets even more bizarre from there. Bradley told the police he was on a secret government mission. He wouldn’t disclose which agency he was working for, only that he may require the firearms to be able to deal with a virus.
Indeed, he gave police permission to take and store the weapons in the station, provided he could access them when he needed to. Then he advised them not to press ahead with any charges, because the classified nature of his work would result in them having paperwork for years.
Tewskbury PD posted a photo of the items found in the hotel room. These included:
- an AR-15 with a grenade launcher and silencer
- an AK-47
- a .22-caliber rifle with a silencer
- 2 x 308-caliber rifles with 3 x loaded large capacity magazines,
- a 9-millimeter gun with 2 x large capacity magazines
- a .45-caliber gun with 2 x speed loaders
- a shotgun
- numerous rounds of ammunition
- multiple smoke grenades.
Bradley had a valid gun license for Texas, but not Massachusetts, so he and his girlfriend Jennings were charged anyway, with multiple counts of weapons possessions. They’ve pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors say they don’t believe there was ever any risk to the public.
SIX WEEKS LATER, - cut to Waikiki. A hotel room is raided, and police find a stash of weapons. The guns were legally registered to the owner, and no law was broken by him having the weapons in the hotel room - however, the police were tipped off by a post on social media, and raided the room.
Not all that news-worthy in itself, apart from the fact that the unnamed 38 year old man claiming to be a federal agent on a mission to hunt terrorist cells.
You can’t help but think of Stephen Paddock and the Vegas massacre reading these stories - if maybe he thought he was helping a government agency control a killer virus or hunt down a terrorist cell (indeed, if maybe he was). Thankfully no one is dead, and our secret agents’ missions are over, for now, at least.
Isn’t it strange!
But the official story about Paddock - the guy who supposedly got rich playing video poker - is preposterous. In view of that, we ought to look at these other theories and connections.
“...claiming to be a federal agent on a mission to hunt terrorist cells.”
I can’t see it going down that way. He’d just make his one phone call to a special number and he would be sprung by guys with proper credentials.
I would assess this as most likely a paranoid schizophrenic in a deteriorating phase who is calling on external authorities to restrain him before he does something harmful to himself or others. This is exactly how schizophrenia can work.
No, I am not a doctor and I do not play one on the Internets. Yes, I have had personal experiences dealing with schizophrenic patients. They speak a "foreign language" which requires translation. Hence the personal opinion.
Real Government agents would not have called the local police for any reason. If somehow discovered with such a stash of weapons, they would have made a single phone call, resulting in a cascade of return calls to the police and the district attorney from some higher ups. The matter would have been quietly dropped.
The Las Vegas incident has been quietly dropped, after quite a bit of visible arm-wrestling between the State and Federal officials. There is not likely a usable connection between that episode and this one. This one is a distractor.