Ex-City of Boston employee held without bail on felony gun charges
- Nasiru Ibrahim, a former City of Boston employee, was held without bail after being indicted on numerous gun charges.
A man who worked for the City of Boston was ordered held without bail at his arraignment in Suffolk Superior Court on Monday, according to a published report .
Nasiru Ibrahim, 25, was indicted earlier this month on "numerous gun charges." The exact charges he faced were not immediately available.
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. Police say they found a loaded semi-automatic pistol equipped with a machine gun conversion device in Ibrahim's car
A lawyer representing Ibrahim, Peter Marano, told WCVB he believed the traffic stop leading to the arrest was unconstitutional.
"It's a young, Black man in a car in South Boston, and I think it is 100% a case of racial profiling," Marano said. "[The trooper] smells marijuana, sees a young, Black man driving a car — an expensive, newer Jeep — and that is the basis for being pulled over."
"You need a reasonable suspicion," he told the station. "And you need probable cause to search. Neither of those two things were there."
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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