Posted on 07/23/2012 3:07:43 PM PDT by raccoonradio
A Maine man pulled over for speeding early yesterday morning told cops he brought a loaded gun into a showing of the new Batman flick and had a car full of weapons and press clippings from the Colorado movie massacre, authorities report.
Maine State Police say after they arrested Timothy Courtois, 49, around 10 a.m. yesterday morning, they found even more firearms at his Biddeford home, including a machine gun, and thousands of rounds of ammunition.
After police stopped his Mustang on the southbound side of the Maine Turnpike, he told them he was heading to Derry, N.H., to shoot his former employer, authorities said. He also admitted to hiding a loaded gun in his backpack during a screening of The Dark Knight Rises at a Saco, Maine, theater the night before, police said.
Inside his car, which police clocked at 112 mph, troopers found an AK-47 assault weapon, four handguns and several boxes of ammunition, police said.
We dont know truly what his intentions were, said Maine State Police spokesman Stephen McCausland.
The startling discovery came just two days after police say a deranged gunman burst into an suburban Denver cinema and opened fire, killing 12 people and injuring 58 others in one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. History.
Courtois was held on $50,000 cash bail following his arraignment today at Maines Springvale District Court on initial charges of having a concealed weapon and criminal speed, police said. The York County District Attorneys Office and the U.S. Attorneys Office in Portland is reviewing the case to see if additional federal charges will be lodged against Courtois.
I am maineman but not the Maine man.
I have in laws in Sanford, ME, about 5 minutes away. The last time I saw them 4 years ago they said, “we’re scared of guns in Maine”! I said, “I’m sure you are but here in the south we love our guns”. She’s probably more scared than ever.
“We’re scared of guns in Maine?”
Seriously? Did your inlaws move to Maine from Massachusetts?
I’ve been here for twenty years and just about everybody I know is armed to the teeth with a wide variety of firearms.
The overwhelming majority of people I’ve encountered here exercise their Second Amendment rights full tilt.
“Seriously? Did your inlaws move to Maine from Massachusetts?”
...Vermont.
$50,000 bail for this dangerous guy, when Zimmerman, the real victim, was made to pay $150,000 even though there was no evidence whatsoever that he would flee trial? There’s something wrong with American justice.
If they allowed CCW in the theater there would be no Aurora event. These perps are basically cowards.
Jimmy Hendricks might have casually said "I'm gonna shoot my ol'lady... caught her messin' round with anotha' man"
What makes you think the guy in question isn't a dem operative paid to stir the pot?
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