OT Guest at Houston hotel caught with AR-15, ammo in his room above NYE celebration

[SlyPokerDog]

A drunk man staying at a Houston hotel had an arsenal of weapons including an AR-15 inside his 28th-floor room above a major New Year’s Eve bash, cops said.

The man, whose identity hasn’t been released, also had a handgun, a shotgun and troves of ammunition, cops told local media.

Security at the Hyatt Regency Downtown called the police sometime after 1:30 a.m. Sunday when a guest at the hotel bar became increasingly drunk, the Houston Chronicle reported.

They had initially tried to have the man go back to his room, the newspaper reported. He started to fight back, however, prompting officials to call the cops.

Houston police and security went to his room to collect his belongings, where they found ammunition all over the room, local NBC affiliate KPRC reported.

They looked around further and found the firearms, police Lt. Gordon Macintosh told KPRC.

The discovery harkens back to the grisly Las Vegas shooting nearly three months ago, when gunman Stephen Paddock smuggled more than a dozen weapons into a hotel room overlooking a country music festival and fired on the crowd, killing 58 and injuring hundreds more.

He was booked with trespassing and unlawfully carrying a weapon.

Authorities are waiting for him to sober up before they can interview him, Macintosh added.

The suspect’s Chevrolet Silverado was also reportedly towed and inspected.

The Hyatt has a sprawling New Year’s Eve party planned for midnight Sunday, according to its website. The bash is supposed to span four floors and will ring in the New Year by dropping 50,000 balloons.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...otel-caught-ar-15-ammo-room-article-1.3729370

 

[riverman]

Alcohol saves lives! That's the thread title I'd have chosen!

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

We really need assisted suicide for physically healthy people who can't cope with life. Just letting them end it without judgement might keep them from taking people with them.

Like people dropping babies off at the fire department.

 

[jonnyboy]

I wonder if he was planning something terrible, or just a drunk guy with a bunch of guns? I know when I stay in any city, any valubles of mine whether it be guns, electronics or otherwise would be out of the car and in the hotel room. Pretty standard for most people I think. Although guns and ammunition aren't common in most people's travels I'll admit. Probably needs some more investigating before we clam a mass shooting has been thwarted.

 

[BrianFromWA]

Glad they found this dude and looking forward to hearing what he was up to, but a couple of points:

1) Three weapons (a pistol, shotgun and rifle, if reported correctly) is not an "arsenal". I personally know multiple people who carry more than that in their vehicle at almost all times.
2) The pistol and shotgun couldn't have been meant for the people below. Now, those may have been his "personal" weapons in case someone found him doing a dastardly deed, but if I have an AR-15 in my hand and the cops blow down my door, I'm not dropping it to pick up the shotgun next to me.
3) They didn't mention it in the story, and I don't know TX gun laws, but what was he doing that was "unlawfully carrying" a weapon? Sure, arrest a dude for being belligerent and drunk and fighting security. Unless he was carrying (illegally/unlicensed) while at the bar? But the story made him sound like he was just a drunk who was being escorted up to his room when security found the "Troves of Ammo" all over.

New York Daily News.

 

[tlongII]

Yep, more fake news from the liberal media. They are getting ridiculous.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

3) They didn't mention it in the story, and I don't know TX gun laws, but what was he doing that was "unlawfully carrying" a weapon? Sure, arrest a dude for being belligerent and drunk and fighting security. Unless he was carrying (illegally/unlicensed) while at the bar? But the story made him sound like he was just a drunk who was being escorted up to his room when security found the "Troves of Ammo" all over.

https://houston.regency.hyatt.com/en/hotel/our-hotel/firearms-policy.html

 

[MarAzul]

Well! I sure don't know what the guy was intending but...

Trespass is a rather low level crime. I don't think Hyatt's Policy being violated makes the crime anymore that tresspass, certainly not criminal trespass until they ask him to leave and he does not. Perhaps that happened, can't tell. Escorting him back to his room is not asking him to leave is it?

Or is there more unsaid here? Who assumed the authority to tow is vehicle? On what grounds? I can't see more than a misdemeanor by this fellow from what I can read.

"troves of ammunition"?
"where they found ammunition all over the room"?

Sensational? Yes, descriptive? No.

 

[Tweak]

Glad they found this dude and looking forward to hearing what he was up to, but a couple of points:

1) Three weapons (a pistol, shotgun and rifle, if reported correctly) is not an "arsenal". I personally know multiple people who carry more than that in their vehicle at almost all times.
2) The pistol and shotgun couldn't have been meant for the people below. Now, those may have been his "personal" weapons in case someone found him doing a dastardly deed, but if I have an AR-15 in my hand and the cops blow down my door, I'm not dropping it to pick up the shotgun next to me.
3) They didn't mention it in the story, and I don't know TX gun laws, but what was he doing that was "unlawfully carrying" a weapon? Sure, arrest a dude for being belligerent and drunk and fighting security. Unless he was carrying (illegally/unlicensed) while at the bar? But the story made him sound like he was just a drunk who was being escorted up to his room when security found the "Troves of Ammo" all over.

New York Daily News.

Man found with a "small arsenal" which was an AR15, shotgun and a pistol. There was a 3 Gun Competition in Houston this weekend.

3 Gun Comp. utilizes, wait for it.... an AR, a shotgun and a pistol plus ammo. Probably not a coincidence but it makes for great click bait.

https://www.fieldandstream.com/articles/guns/2015/06/the-beginners-guide-to-3-gun-competition

 

[jonnyboy]

Luckily for him, the police only shoot unarmed people.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

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Man found with a "small arsenal" which was an AR15, shotgun and a pistol. There was a 3 Gun Competition in Houston this weekend.

3 Gun Comp. utilizes, wait for it.... an AR, a shotgun and a pistol plus ammo. Probably not a coincidence but it makes for great click bait.

https://www.fieldandstream.com/articles/guns/2015/06/the-beginners-guide-to-3-gun-competition

Oh fuck me. That's it? That's good then.

 

[riverman]

Man found with a "small arsenal" which was an AR15, shotgun and a pistol. There was a 3 Gun Competition in Houston this weekend.

3 Gun Comp. utilizes, wait for it.... an AR, a shotgun and a pistol plus ammo. Probably not a coincidence but it makes for great click bait.

https://www.fieldandstream.com/articles/guns/2015/06/the-beginners-guide-to-3-gun-competition

News said he was in unlawful possession of firearms.....I doubt that would be the case for someone in a gun competition..or he's an idiot...

 

[Tweak]

News said he was in unlawful possession of firearms.....I doubt that would be the case for someone in a gun competition..or he's an idiot...

News says a lot of things. He is an idiot though.

 

[tlongII]

He is an idiot but that was fake news.

 

[rasheedfan2005]

I wonder if he was planning something terrible, or just a drunk guy with a bunch of guns? I know when I stay in any city, any valubles of mine whether it be guns, electronics or otherwise would be out of the car and in the hotel room. Pretty standard for most people I think. Although guns and ammunition aren't common in most people's travels I'll admit. Probably needs some more investigating before we clam a mass shooting has been thwarted.

I agree. I usually travel with my .40. I could see a hunting trip where id have a rifle but cant think of an instance where id have multiple and hoards of ammo.

 

[rasheedfan2005]

Glad they found this dude and looking forward to hearing what he was up to, but a couple of points:

1) Three weapons (a pistol, shotgun and rifle, if reported correctly) is not an "arsenal". I personally know multiple people who carry more than that in their vehicle at almost all times.
2) The pistol and shotgun couldn't have been meant for the people below. Now, those may have been his "personal" weapons in case someone found him doing a dastardly deed, but if I have an AR-15 in my hand and the cops blow down my door, I'm not dropping it to pick up the shotgun next to me.
3) They didn't mention it in the story, and I don't know TX gun laws, but what was he doing that was "unlawfully carrying" a weapon? Sure, arrest a dude for being belligerent and drunk and fighting security. Unless he was carrying (illegally/unlicensed) while at the bar? But the story made him sound like he was just a drunk who was being escorted up to his room when security found the "Troves of Ammo" all over.

New York Daily News.

Tx gun laws it is a felony to carry where alcohol is the major source of income licensed or not. If it is not the major source of income i believe a felony for unlicensed and misdemeanor fo licensed. Other than that if it's not posted i believe it's a misdemeanor unlicensed. I thought this was ny though. If it's ny i believe it's illegal to even say gun.

 

[rasheedfan2005]

I wonder if people that are angry drunks have mental disorders. I always get happy when drunk. I never understood why you'd keep drinking if it made you mad.

 

[riverman]

Yep, more fake news from the liberal media. They are getting ridiculous.

the media has always been ridiculous but you're wrong to limit it to liberals....plenty of it from both sides ...always has been...Nixon faked news all the time...I saw it first hand and watched lots of news get chopped up and reissued under Nixon.....GI kills 5 GIs for some drug deal and they'll probably come home as war casualties with purple hearts and combat action ribbons....they have always tainted the news.....J Edgar Hoover wrote the book on cover ups...it's time for folks to stop putting fake info in some political bubble and see that news is in it for the money....not the accuracy..so has the govt been throughout history...you just have to filter it with your own sensebilities and find interpretations you can trust

 

[stampedehero]

A drunk man staying at a Houston hotel had an arsenal of weapons including an AR-15 inside his 28th-floor room above a major New Year’s Eve bash, cops said.

The man, whose identity hasn’t been released, also had a handgun, a shotgun and troves of ammunition, cops told local media.

Security at the Hyatt Regency Downtown called the police sometime after 1:30 a.m. Sunday when a guest at the hotel bar became increasingly drunk, the Houston Chronicle reported.

They had initially tried to have the man go back to his room, the newspaper reported. He started to fight back, however, prompting officials to call the cops.

Houston police and security went to his room to collect his belongings, where they found ammunition all over the room, local NBC affiliate KPRC reported.

They looked around further and found the firearms, police Lt. Gordon Macintosh told KPRC.

The discovery harkens back to the grisly Las Vegas shooting nearly three months ago, when gunman Stephen Paddock smuggled more than a dozen weapons into a hotel room overlooking a country music festival and fired on the crowd, killing 58 and injuring hundreds more.

He was booked with trespassing and unlawfully carrying a weapon.

Authorities are waiting for him to sober up before they can interview him, Macintosh added.

The suspect’s Chevrolet Silverado was also reportedly towed and inspected.

The Hyatt has a sprawling New Year’s Eve party planned for midnight Sunday, according to its website. The bash is supposed to span four floors and will ring in the New Year by dropping 50,000 balloons.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...otel-caught-ar-15-ammo-room-article-1.3729370

I hope the cops beat the shit out of him and took his money

 

[MARIS61]

FWIW, The Second Amendment overrules any and all laws, regulations, ordinances, rules, HOA's... that infringe in any way, shape or form on the right to carry weapons of any kind, including on privately held property that is primarily a business serving the general public.

In this case, the hotel refusing to accommodate people who are carrying is no different than a bakery refusing to make a cake for gays. Both customers are quite clearly being discriminated against despite rock-solid Constitutional protections.

 

[riverman]

FWIW, The Second Amendment overrules any and all laws, regulations, ordinances, rules, HOA's... that infringe in any way, shape or form on the right to carry weapons of any kind, including on privately held property that is primarily a business serving the general public.

In this case, the hotel refusing to accommodate people who are carrying is no different than a bakery refusing to make a cake for gays. Both customers are quite clearly being discriminated against despite rock-solid Constitutional protections.

wrong...no way drunk belligerent bakers should make cakes for anyone.

 

[riverman]

different than a bakery refusing to make a cake for gays.

bakers won't kill hordes of gays with a cake more than likely either....weird analogy about someone out of control with weapons near a celebration following a massive shooting at a country western concert in Vegas....caution may be required given recent events

 

[MARIS61]

bakers won't kill hordes of gays with a cake more than likely either....weird analogy about someone out of control with weapons near a celebration following a massive shooting at a country western concert in Vegas....caution may be required given recent events

He was not out of control with weapons.

He was unarmed, and actually refused to go to his room where he had stored them for safekeeping (so they wouldn't be stolen by criminals.)

According to the police, anyway, who did not charge him with any weapons violations.

 

[riverman]

He was not out of control with weapons.

you nor I were there...but you got my point...you have to be really out of control for a hotel to call the cops on you while you're buying their booze....the precaution in this circumstance has nothing to do with 2nd amendment rights...it has to do with hotel patrons rights to enjoy their stay

 

[MARIS61]

bakers won't kill hordes of gays with a cake more than likely either....weird analogy about someone out of control with weapons near a celebration following a massive shooting at a country western concert in Vegas....caution may be required given recent events

http://www.irishnews.com/opinion/2015/02/12/news/-poisoned-cake-murder-115642/

'Poisoned cake' murder
12 February, 2015 00:00
BALLYBAY (County Monaghan) chemist gave evidence yesterday at Dublin Central Criminal Court of selling sixteen grains of strychnine for killing rats. Mr Henry Manley said that the purchaser was Miss Agnes McAdam, a fifty-three-year-old spinster of Derrylosk, Ballybay who was charged with the murder by poisoning of James Finnegan (65), a farmer of Ballybay, on September 28. The prosecution allege that Finnegan died from poisoning by strychnine, which they say was contained in a cake which Miss McAdam brought to his house. She has pleaded not guilty.

Miss Lily Finnegan (28), daughter of the dead man, cross-examined for the defence, said that about 500 people were expected at a social for two priests who were going away, and Miss McAdam brought two cakes to her home, stating, 'They are only out of the oven.'

Jack McAdam, farmer, said he lived with his wife and his sister (the accused). There were rats on his farms and he had used rat poison to exterminate them. Mr McAdam said that since his sister had had her hand injured by a threshing machine some years ago, she had worn a glove and her nerves had been affected.

Hugh O'Neill, a farmer, said that on September 28 he saw a dog in a dying condition in Finnegan's kitchen. Daniel O'Neill, another farmer, said he saw James Finnegan sitting on a stove outside his house. Finnegan was convulsed with about five seizures.

 

[riverman]

http://www.irishnews.com/opinion/2015/02/12/news/-poisoned-cake-murder-115642/

'Poisoned cake' murder
12 February, 2015 00:00
BALLYBAY (County Monaghan) chemist gave evidence yesterday at Dublin Central Criminal Court of selling sixteen grains of strychnine for killing rats. Mr Henry Manley said that the purchaser was Miss Agnes McAdam, a fifty-three-year-old spinster of Derrylosk, Ballybay who was charged with the murder by poisoning of James Finnegan (65), a farmer of Ballybay, on September 28. The prosecution allege that Finnegan died from poisoning by strychnine, which they say was contained in a cake which Miss McAdam brought to his house. She has pleaded not guilty.

Miss Lily Finnegan (28), daughter of the dead man, cross-examined for the defence, said that about 500 people were expected at a social for two priests who were going away, and Miss McAdam brought two cakes to her home, stating, 'They are only out of the oven.'

Jack McAdam, farmer, said he lived with his wife and his sister (the accused). There were rats on his farms and he had used rat poison to exterminate them. Mr McAdam said that since his sister had had her hand injured by a threshing machine some years ago, she had worn a glove and her nerves had been affected.

Hugh O'Neill, a farmer, said that on September 28 he saw a dog in a dying condition in Finnegan's kitchen. Daniel O'Neill, another farmer, said he saw James Finnegan sitting on a stove outside his house. Finnegan was convulsed with about five seizures.

start lobbying for your amendment...the right to carry cakes and rat poison!

 

[MARIS61]

you nor I were there...but you got my point...you have to be really out of control for a hotel to call the cops on you while you're buying their booze....the precaution in this circumstance has nothing to do with 2nd amendment rights...it has to do with hotel patrons rights to enjoy their stay

The refusal to allow armed customers had nothing to do with this individual or his intoxication, it is a blanket discrimination against all who wish to bear arms. It is posted at the door and applies to everyone except LEO's while on duty.

 

[MARIS61]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/11/18/poisoned.cake/index.html

Girls charged over sickening cake
Georgia teens due in court after classmates fall ill
Friday, November 19, 2004 Posted: 10:12 AM EST (1512 GMT)

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Two suburban Atlanta schoolgirls accused of using a poisoned cake to sicken more than a dozen classmates are scheduled to appear before a juvenile court judge on assault charges Friday.

Twelve students suffered from abdominal pain, nausea and diarrhea, and three others have reported similar symptoms, police said. Investigators suspect the cake contained bleach and glue, among other substances, but Cobb County Police spokesman Cpl. Dana Pierce said the remnants of the dish have not yet been tested.

"We're looking for a lab, a private or government lab, to test that for us," Pierce said.

The girls, both 13, were being held in the Cobb County juvenile detention center in Marietta on Thursday. Each faces 12 counts of aggravated assault with intent to commit murder, police said.

One of the girls has been charged with an additional count of making terrorist threats after reportedly telling her classmates the cake they were eating contained bleach. But the girl's father -- an occasional freelance writer for CNN -- said his daughter denies putting bleach in the cake, though she admits to mixing in glue.

The father called the incident "a bad prank."

"It wasn't anybody trying to kill anybody," he said, adding that his daughter suffers from Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism.

The girls can't be tried on assault charges as adults. But Cobb County District Attorney Pat Head said he needs to verify the contents of the cake before deciding whether other charges might be warranted.

"It could be that it stays serious, or it could be that the analysis of the cake says that there was nothing in there that was that harmful," he said. "In that case, we'll look at what the appropriate charges should be."

Authorities could not say when test results would be available.

 

[riverman]

http://www.tbo.com/pinellas-county/...not-disarming-drunk-driving-suspect-20130722/

 

[riverman]

The refusal to allow armed customers had nothing to do with this individual or his intoxication

You've never tended bar I take it.....