Boston employee arrested after violent traffic stop indicted on gun charges
A 25-year-old man who worked for the City of Boston but was fired after being arrested following a violent altercation with a Massachusetts State Police trooper during a traffic stop was indicted this week on gun charges, prosecutors said.
The exact charges Nasiru Ibrahim was indicted on were not immediately clear, as there was no record of the indictment in the state's court system. But Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden's office said he faced "numerous gun charges."
The indictment is a largely procedural step, moving his case from district court to superior court.
Ibrahim is being held in lieu of posting $75,000 bail. He is set to be arraigned in Suffolk Superior Court on Oct. 24, Hayden's office said in a statement.
When he was arrested on July 30, Ibrahim faced 10 criminal charges, including eight felonies. Ibrahim worked as a property manager for Boston before being fired following his arrest.
Ibrahim's arrest came after a confrontation with a Massachusetts State Police trooper who pulled him over near Preble Circle in South Boston after the trooper noticed what he described as overly-tinted windows on Ibrahim's car.
The pair got into a violent altercation that ended with Ibrahim and the trooper using a taser on one another.
Ibrahim's arrest came amid what a pair of Boston city councilors called a "surge of troubling incidents involving City of Boston employees, including fights and other violent or criminal behavior."
Councilors Ed Flynn and Erin Murphy sought to convene an emergency hearing on the city's hiring practices.
Ibrahim had open cases for violent crime when he was hired, according to Flynn, who claimed at a City Council meeting the 25-year-old had a seven-page criminal record that included a conviction for armed assault to murder that led to a five-year prison sentence.
Mayor Michelle Wu has disputed that account.
"There was a screening process, and as I understand it, there's some clear discrepancies between what some are saying on that record in the media, and what it actually says, and the documents that I have seen," Wu said at an event, according to The Boston Herald .
Asked for audio of Wu speaking, the mayor's office would only confirm that Ibrahim had been fired.
The mayor said the city was aware Ibrahim had a criminal record when he was hired, but that her administration "believes in second chances."
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