The weapons were strategically placed throughout the apartment the way a Marine patrol unit...

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http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-ctmanusmc1025.artoct25,0,2086992.story

Iraq Veteran Faces Charges
Threatened Girlfriend, According To Police
By CHRISTINE DEMPSEY | Courant Staff Writer
October 25, 2007

MANCHESTER - Fresh off two, back-to-back tours in Iraq, a troubled Marine reservist faced a judge Wednesday on charges of pointing a loaded shotgun at his girlfriend and throwing a knife at her.

With "USMC" tattooed on his neck, Riaan Roberts, 25, of Chestnut Street, stood expressionless before the judge during his arraignment in Superior Court in Manchester.

The charges against him, which include first-degree reckless endangerment, second-degree unlawful restraint and third-degree assault, stem from a bizarre incident with his girlfriend early Tuesday. According to police, Roberts insulted the woman, threw a knife at her and pointed a loaded shotgun at her in their Manchester apartment where officers found three guns - two shotguns and a rifle - four knives and boxes of ammunition.

The weapons were strategically placed throughout the apartment the way a Marine patrol unit would set up a defensive position after occupying a building, the police report states.

Roberts returned from Iraq six months ago, the report says.

[Mika]

1. Tick tick tick

:nuke:

:(

[madokie]

2. thats the scary part

Tick tick tick

[MADem]

3. That guy is a powderkeg and that girl is VERY LUCKY to be alive. NT

[donsu]

4. woman

she must have been a woman or he would have had further charges

[MADem]

5. Jesus, enjoy those semantics, why doncha?

So when Grandma goes out with the girls, she needs to be chastised?

You can take PC a bit too far. Anyone under thirty is a girl to me.

[donsu]

6. if women under 30 are 'girls' to you, what are girls to you?

females under 18 are girls. although some societies think females go from girl to woman with the first menstruation. what with the pollution causing 9 year olds to start monthly bleeding.....

yes, words matter.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

7. Get over it, kid.

[MADem]

9. I guess that is why the article called the female friend of the Marine his

GIRL

friend....because words mattered.

Under 18, they're KIDS. Youngsters. Teens. Children.

You're overreaching.

Guess I'd better warn old Gramps, don't go out with the BOYS, either...the PC police will beat you to the ground.

[Selatius]

8. We're making more John Rambos and Timothy McVeighs every day the war drags on.

And they're going to be dumped on the streets when the war is finished with them.