By Jonathan L’Ecuyer
The Gloucester Times
ROCKPORT, Mass. — The part-time EMT arrested last week on larceny and obstruction of justice allegations now faces multiple drug and weapon charges after police found a cache of firearms, thousands of assorted prescription pills, a tear-gas launcher and a military-grade rocket launcher — all inside his Rockport apartment.
James M. Atkinson of 31R Broadway, was arrested on the new charges after police officers executed a search warrant obtained from Gloucester District Court.
Police had sought the warrant suspecting that Atkinson — whose license to carry a gun was suspended last week off the original felony charge — failed to relinquish all of his firearms the first time around. That, police said, came after officers noticed he had handed in ammunition for guns that he hadn’t turned over.
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