TEWKSBURY, MA (WBAP/KLIF News) – A Frisco couple is sitting in Massachusetts jail after police found a stockpile of weapons in their hotel room including an AK-47, AR-15 with a grenade launcher, a bump stock and numerous rounds of ammunition.
59-year-old Francho Bradley and 40-year-old Adrianne Jennings were arrested at a Marriott Residence Inn in Tewksbury, just north of Boston.
According to a police news release, Bradley called 9-1-1 Saturday afternoon and told a dispatcher that he believed his hotel room was being broken into because of a video surveillance device that he had attached to his door had cut out.
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Investigators said Bradley was concerned that he was not in Tewksbury and that he had an unsecured firearm in his room. When officers arrived, they found several long guns wrapped in a flight suit.
After obtaining a search warrant for the room and the couple’s car, investigators found more weapons, ammunition, large capacity feeding devices and infernal machines a large capacity shotgun, a bump stock and lots of ammunition.
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According to a police report obtained by the Lowell Sun, investigators said Francho told them that he couldn’t say what he does for work or why he had the weapons but that he was in the area working for a government agency that is dealing with a virus.
The report said Francho claimed the information was classified.
Bradley and Jennings are facing 45 weapons charges including multiple counts of possession of a large capacity firearm, numerous counts of improper storage of a large capacity firearm, three counts of possession of a silencer, one count of possession of a firearm without a license, one count of possession of ammunition without a license and three counts of possession of an infernal machine and possession of a machine gun.
Massachusetts State Police, the FBI and the ATF are also investigating.
The couple is being held without bail pending a March 30th hearing.
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