BOSTON, May 15, 2015—A Canton man allegedly picked the wrong target when he pointed a loaded handgun at a plainclothes Boston Police officer during an apparent road-rage incident yesterday, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said.

AARON JESKEY (D.O.B. 4/15/80) was arraigned today in Boston Municipal Court on charges of assault with a dangerous weapon and improper storage of a firearm.  Jeskey was not charged with unlawful possession of a firearm because he had a license to carry at the time of the incident; that license has since been suspended and he has been ordered to surrender all firearms in his possession.

Assistant District Attorney Elizabeth Burke of Conley’s Gun Prosecution Task Force requested that bail be set at $10,000 and that Jeskey be ordered to have no contact with the victim officer and comply with the firearm surrender order.  Judge Michael Coyne imposed the requested bail and ordered Jeskey to surrender all firearms.

A plainclothes officer assigned to the Boston Police drug control unit was parked on Tremont Street while conducting surveillance at approximately 6:00 p.m. yesterday when he became aware of a vehicle that stopped behind his unmarked BPD vehicle and began honking.  The driver of the blue Honda CRV, later identified as Jeskey, then pulled up alongside the officer’s vehicle and complained about the location where the officer had parked, shouted profanities and made an obscene gesture.    When ordered to pull over, Jeskey allegedly displayed a black firearm and told the officer, “You don’t want any of this,” before driving off, prosecutors said.

Additional officers in a marked cruiser stopped the vehicle in traffic in the area of Tremont and Temple streets.  Upon removing Jeskey from the SUV at gunpoint, officers located a black Glock 17 9mm on the driver’s seat; it was loaded with nine rounds of ammunition.  An inventory of the vehicle also revealed a gun case containing a Heckler & Koch P30 9mm firearm containing 10 rounds of ammunition and an empty magazine behind the passenger’s seat and a magazine containing 10 live rounds located in a backpack in the front seat, prosecutors said.

Officers learned that Jeskey, who possessed a valid license to carry issued by Stoughton Police, owned 17 registered firearms.  Boston Police contacted the licensing unit of the Stoughton Police Department, which immediately suspended Jeskey’s license to carry and ordered him to turn over all of his firearms upon his release from custody. Those actions arise out of his arrest and alleged failure to notify Stoughton Police that he had moved from that town to Canton.

Jeskey was represented by Edward Principe.  He returns to the Suffolk County Gun Court June 17.

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