HARWICH FELONY STOP: Suspects taken down at gunpoint… 3 arrested…...

UPDATE: 9-12-16 State Police confirm via message, a total of 3 individuals were arrested. The operator of the vehicle was also charged with driving on a suspended license. The call initiated when a passerby noticed a young male who appeared angry removing a rifle out of the trunk and taking into the vehicle with him. Harwich police made the stop on Great Western Road in the area of Depot St… Police took measures out of concern for officer safety… (No further information was available at the time of this update…)

HARWICH – According to police radio traffic, earlier this afternoon, state troopers in the Mid-Cape area responded to a report of a male removing a rifle from the trunk of a vehicle.

A motorist observed the vehicle pulled over somewhere in the area of Route 6. A young male removed the rifle from its sheath and may have put it inside the vehicle…

Details are still developing and, according to troopers, the incident is still being investigated at the Yarmouth State Police barracks…

At least one of the males was in state police custody at the time of this report.

HN will provide arrest details as they become available…

The above images and following video were sent in by Brian Childs, a HN reader. The video was taken quickly and from a distance, so it’s a bit shaky. But according to witnesses, police with handguns and shotguns took each passenger out one at a time, ordering them each to the ground before securing them in handcuffs.

There may have been 3 males inside the vehicle, but that has not yet been officially confirmed.

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