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Posted by: DeputyFife

Ipswich -
An Ipswich man is in custody after police found a cache of weapons at his Topsfield Road home following a domestic dispute. A rifle, a shotgun, banana clips and inert hand grenades were among the weapons found. David C. Putur, 34, of 13 Topsfield Road, Ipswich, was charged with domestic assault and battery after police were called to his home at 3:24 p.m. At his arraignment Monday in Ipswich District Court in Newburyport, Judge Peter Doyle ordered Putur held without bail until a dangerousness hearing is held on Thursday, May 17.
According to Detective Peter Dziadose of the Ipswich Police Department, police became aware of the weapons as they were assisting his victim, who was granted an emergency restraining order after the incident.
Sgt. Peter Nikas and Officer Jason Sinclair recovered a Ruger semi-automatic rifle with a folding stock, a Mossberg shotgun with a folding pistol grip stock, several swords and knives, five 20-round magazine clips and three 30-round magazine clips, as well as an assortment of other ammunition that amounted to more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition. There were also several soft air guns and gas masks, Dziadose said, as well as several types of camouflage clothing and army-type artifacts.
“The officers further found an attachment for one of the rifles, which indicated it would be a grenade launcher attachment,” the detective said.
Police also found three hand grenades. Two were determined to be inert; the third was carefully brought to the police station where the State Police bomb squad X-rayed the weapon and determined it was also inert.
“All precautions had to be made to ensure everybody’s safety,” Dziadose said.
The weapons were secured at the station.
Police are expecting to bring weapons charges against Putur, pending the results of investigations by Dziadose, Nikas, Sgt. Thomas Colpitts, and Officers Donald Cole and Edward Gallivan.
Police have determined Putur was not licensed to possess the weapons.
“Mr. Putur does not have a license to carry any high-capacity items, to possess them or even own them,” Dziadose said, adding that Putur’s firearm identification card had expired several years ago.
“But even that certainly would not allow him to possess the large capacity feeding devices that were recovered at that residence,” he said. These devices, also called banana clips, are restricted to military and law enforcement, with the exception of some collectors who were grandfathered in when the laws changed.
“Incidents like this happen in all cities and towns,” Dziadose said. “It’s not just unique to the larger cities and towns.”
He said Ipswich officers were able to use their training and experience to ensure the safety of everyone involved as they removed and secured the weapons.

Photo by Courtesy photo
These are some of the weapons Ipswich Police found at the Putur home on Topsfield Road.
By Jane Fosberry Enos/jfenos@cnc.com
GateHouse News Service
Wed May 16, 2007, 05:44 PM EDT

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Posted by: Wolfman

Kind of an anticlimactic "cache"...

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Posted by: justanotherparatrooper

"inert grenades" and airsoft guns? They really stretched it to call that a weapons cache.

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Posted by: JoninNH

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Originally Posted by justanotherparatrooper "inert grenades" and airsoft guns? They really stretched it to call that a weapons cache.

It's MA remember?

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Posted by: DeputyFife

Published: 05/25/2007
Judge keeps man with weapons collection behind bars
By Julie Manganis
Staff writer



IPSWICH - David Putur was the son of a Vietnam veteran who sought to pay tribute to his late father by collecting weapons, his lawyer said yesterday.
But a prosecutor questioned how modifying semi-automatic shotguns by adding hand grips was a tribute to a veteran and urged a Salem Superior Court judge to keep Putur behind bars as a dangerous person.
Putur, 34, of 13 Topsfield Road, was arrested earlier this month on charges that include domestic assault and battery and unlicensed possession of a handgun, after his girlfriend's uncle went to police to report that she had been assaulted.
Yesterday, Salem Superior Court Judge David Lowy agreed with the prosecutor's request to keep Putur in custody.
While prosecutor Joseph Collins acknowledged that the domestic case did not result in injuries, he said he was alarmed by testimony during an earlier hearing that Putur had once shot his girlfriend in the leg with a BB gun.
More disturbing, the prosecutor said, was Putur's collection of weapons, including the modified guns, swords left all around the house, including under a bed, and grenades.
And two guns Putur had once owned are missing, Collins said.
Defense lawyer Charles Rotondi argued that Putur is trying to help police locate the guns. "We have been cooperating from Day One," he told Lowy.
He also said the guns were purchased at local sporting goods stores and were never used.
And the fact that Putur's firearms license had expired was something Putur didn't realize because the law had changed since he got the license.
Lowy was not persuaded, deeming Putur a risk and ordering him held for 90 days.
Putur is due back in court on Thursday.

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