Authorities have two questions for a bushy-bearded mystery man found wandering the East Village with a giant dagger poking out of his backpack back in March:
Who is he? And why did he (allegedly) have a loaded pistol, three more daggers, a stun gun, and a total of 305 additional rounds of ammo in his South Street storage locker?
James Edward O'Donnell, 39 -- that's the name and age he gave cops -- insists he's an American and a war veteran, but when his prints were run after his arrest on St. Marks, he came back with not only no rap sheet, but no drivers license, no Social Security number, nothing.
"This is a very strange case, in that this defendant has been accused of all forms of weapons charges and the people are absolutely uncertain as to his identity or whereabouts," Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Lewis Stone said today, as O'Donnell sat before him at the defense table.
Someone has to know this fellow...
Is not having a social security # a crime? Soon the lack of a facebook profile will be a felony!
ReplyDeleteWhen will Bloomberg stop this war on souless drifters? ;)
It's Leon Trotsky with hipster glasses and combed hair!
ReplyDeleteObviously he gave the cops a fake name. They'll find out who he is. If he goes free, I hopes he picks another area to walk around with all of his weapons. We don't need him here in the East Village!
ReplyDeleteuncle james???
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