BOSTON — A man arrested outside Secretary of State John Kerry’s Boston home with what police say was a pellet gun in his car is being held on unrelated charges.
State Department security officers spotted 29-year-old Vladimir Romanov of Boston parked in a no-parking zone Sunday afternoon and called police.
Romanov told security officers he was taking pictures to show a friend, police say. When asked to move his vehicle, he said he’d been drinking.
In Romanov’s car, police said they found a pellet gun, along with three cellphones, a GPS navigation system, a black canvas bag containing several carbon dioxide cartridges and an open container of alcohol.
At Romanov’s arraignment yesterday, a municipal court judge revoked his bail on an unrelated charge of assault with a dangerous weapon and ordered him held for allegedly violating the terms of his probation on an earlier drunken-driving case.
Kerry spokesman Glen Johnson said the man was taking pictures of a window in Kerry’s house. Kerry, a former US senator from Massachusetts, was not home.
Romanov is due back in court Sept. 25.