DRACUT, MASS. (WHDH) - An 18-year-old Dracut man is being held on $10,000 bail after police recovered an illegal firearm in his possession Thursday afternoon.
Officers responding to reports of an armed suspect on Totman Road around 3 p.m. found a parked car near a fire gate leading to the Lowell-Dracut-Tyngsboro State Forest, where they soon located Nicholas Avon and two others, according to police.
Investigators said they found a loaded Glock 9mm handgun with a scratched-off serial number and 34 rounds of ammunition on his person.
He is due to be arraigned Friday in Lowell District Court on a number of firearms-related charges.