Police say they seized nine illegally owned firearms and arrested three out-of-state men thanks to an alert citizen, the Enterprise reported.“With the help of a good Samaritan, the Brockton police have averted a future tragedy,” said police spokesman Darren Duarte.Officers Darvin Anderson, James Parker and Sean Slattery, Sgts. Robert Diliddo and Charles Cassiani and Capt. Emmanuel Gomes responded to 35 Longworth Ave. about 11:02 a.m. on Saturday after a man called police to report he had seen three men with guns behind a building at the Longworth Place Condominiums.“Soon after, Brockton police officers confiscated nine guns, including one rifle, and several high-capacity magazines and ammunition from three Tennessee men,” Duarte said.As the officers arrived, they spotted a handgun with a large magazine on the floor of the 1994 Honda Accord the men were in, Duarte said.“The officers also observed that there were several rounds of ammunition and magazines scattered inside the car,” he said.The men were identified by police as Domenick Everett Barshaw, 18, Theodore Eugene Baskette, 20, and Christopher Smart, 18, all of Tennessee.“They found face masks, two Kevlar gloves and red handkerchiefs inside as well,” Duarte said. “None of the occupants in the vehicle could produce a license to carry the weapons.”Police say they located the remainder of the guns inside the vehicle’s trunk.Barshaw and Baskette were arrested and charged with possession of a firearm without a firearms identification card and illegal possession of ammunition.Smart was arrested and charged with illegal possession of a large-capacity feeding device.Police say it wasn’t immediately clear why the men were in Massachusetts or what their motive may have been.The case remains under investigation.All three men were arraigned Monday in Brockton District Court and a judge ordered them to be held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing on Thursday.

Police say they seized nine illegally owned firearms and arrested three out-of-state men thanks to an alert citizen, the Enterprise reported.

“With the help of a good Samaritan, the Brockton police have averted a future tragedy,” said police spokesman Darren Duarte.


Officers Darvin Anderson, James Parker and Sean Slattery, Sgts. Robert Diliddo and Charles Cassiani and Capt. Emmanuel Gomes responded to 35 Longworth Ave. about 11:02 a.m. on Saturday after a man called police to report he had seen three men with guns behind a building at the Longworth Place Condominiums.

“Soon after, Brockton police officers confiscated nine guns, including one rifle, and several high-capacity magazines and ammunition from three Tennessee men,” Duarte said.

As the officers arrived, they spotted a handgun with a large magazine on the floor of the 1994 Honda Accord the men were in, Duarte said.

“The officers also observed that there were several rounds of ammunition and magazines scattered inside the car,” he said.

The men were identified by police as Domenick Everett Barshaw, 18, Theodore Eugene Baskette, 20, and Christopher Smart, 18, all of Tennessee.

“They found face masks, two Kevlar gloves and red handkerchiefs inside as well,” Duarte said. “None of the occupants in the vehicle could produce a license to carry the weapons.”

Police say they located the remainder of the guns inside the vehicle’s trunk.

Barshaw and Baskette were arrested and charged with possession of a firearm without a firearms identification card and illegal possession of ammunition.

Smart was arrested and charged with illegal possession of a large-capacity feeding device.

Police say it wasn’t immediately clear why the men were in Massachusetts or what their motive may have been.

The case remains under investigation.

All three men were arraigned Monday in Brockton District Court and a judge ordered them to be held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing on Thursday.