"Tabhair 'om póg, is Éireannach mé" *

Fall River father and son charged
 after guns, drugs seized in raid

Fall River Police seized this Walther .32 caliber
 handgun and 12-guage Mossberg sawed-off shotgun
 in a raid at 246 Quequechan St. on Tuesday, March 16.

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By Will Richmond
Herald Hews Staff Reporter
Posted Mar 17, 2010 @ 05:54 PM
Last update Mar 17, 2010 @ 08:28 PM
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FALL RIVER — A father and son team are facing an array of charges after police arrested the pair while allegedly in possession of illegal firearms and prescription pills.


Police spokesman Sgt. Paul Gauvin said members of the Vice and Intelligence Unit, led by Detective William Falandys, served a search warrant at 246 Quequechan St. at 8 p.m. Tuesday. After initially being allowed entry into the building’s third floor apartment, Gauvin said, officers forced their way inside, secured the occupants and began a search.

During the search, police found a loaded Walther PP .32 caliber semiautomatic handgun hidden behind a bedroom closet baseboard, a loaded Mossberg 12-gauge sawed-off shotgun with the serial number removed hidden behind a wood panel in a kitchen closet and an undetermined amounts of Oxycontin, Xanax and Oxycodone.

Following the search, police charged Robert Patrick O’Shea, 22, and Patrick O’Shea, 59, both of 246 Quequechan St., with possession of a firearm without a FID card, possession of a sawed-off shotgun, defacing the serial number of a firearm and possession of ammunition without a FID card. Robert Patrick O’Shea is also charged with possession of a firearm in a felony, possession to distribute a Class B drug, possession to distribute a Class B drug in a school zone, possession of a Class B drug and possession of a Class C drug.


Bristol County District Attorney’s office spokesman Gregg Miliote said the younger O’Shea was held without bail at his Wednesday arraignment pending a dangerousness hearing Friday. The hearing was requested because of the presence of the illegal sawed-off shotgun.

The arrests elicited comments of praise from police Chief Daniel Racine and District Attorney Sam Sutter.

“Again, I commend the members of the Fall River Police Department for their superior investigative efforts,” Racine said. “This investigation yielded two dangerous firearms, to include a sawed-off shotgun, and the arrest and charging of two felons.

“The Fall River Police Department will continue with its aggressive gun reduction policy. This policy coupled with District Attorney Samuel Sutter’s aggressive gun prosecution policy, will make the Fall River area a safer place."

Sutter added: “I am elated that Chief Racine is attacking the problem of illegal firearms in Fall River with the same aggressiveness on the street that we at the District Attorney’s Office are employing in the courtroom. In the past week, the police have seized several firearms and we have requested dangerousness hearings when legally permissible or extremely high bail in all the other instances. I hope that the clerks who are presiding over the bail hearings at night and the judges who are presiding over the bail hearings during the day recognize the urgency and gravity of this problem to the same extent that Chief Racine and I do.”


Mayor Will Flanagan said, “I want to commend the Fall River Police Department for seizing and removing illegal firearms from our streets. Their swift action continues to protect the safety of our citizens.”
E-mail Will Richmond at wrichmond@heraldnews.com.

Robert Patrick O’Shea, 22, and Patrick O’Shea, 59

Now there boy-o, that was a fine St. Patty's Day, wasn't it now! Let me tell you, it must a been a grand old time down there on the Quequechan Street Tuesday night  when the local Constabulary made their way to the second floor apartment ever so cautiously to put the screws to a couple a fine hooligans if ever I did see a pair! Look at them there in their mug shot (above), all full of themselves and the Divil! They look so rediculous I bet they're REALLY  english! All I can say to them is "Póg mo thóin!" (pronounced "pogue muh ho-in") a phrase I learned from listening to me dear sainted grand fither when he was arguin' with me dear sainted grand mither about loosin' his temper and spillin' his Naragansett whenever the Yankees beat the lowly Red Sox in the early 1960's. By the way, it means to..ah..ah...place your lips on the backside of me "blarney stone" if you'd be catchin' me drift, soooo to speak! It's not very nice, which is another reason granny would tell me to cover me ears.


Anyways, these two hooligans were takin' druugs and hidin' weapons like the common thieves they were. The shame of it all to have it happen so close to  St. Patty's Day indeed! Public drunkeness and a wee bit o fightin' in the Pubs is all you really should see on the 17th each year. But this went beyond the bloody pale! Imagine the fools diggin' holes behind the closet baseboards and hidin' this stuff like they were gettin' ready for the revolution on Easter Day in 1916.What a pair of ungrateful fools! Just more proof that all the clowns in this world aren't just in the circus!


Oh how angry I get when I think of the shame of it all.....what is the world to think of us! We all don't sing Patriotic Songs all day long and swill the green beer ya know! Some of us even have jobs! But I wouldn't exactly call these yokels "Lace Curtain" at t'all, at t'all. No, I think the only words I can muster for these two gutter snipes is "Go n-ithe an cat thú is go n-ithe an diabhal an cat" (pronunced "guh nihs-heh on cot hoo iss guh nihs-heh on jowel on cot"), which means "May the cat eat you and the devil eat the cat!" And not one bit too soon either!


And to the local Constabulary who so bravely faced down this villians, let me say to all of you , thank you and "Beannachtaí na Féile Páraic oraibh"! (pronounced "ban-ock-tee na fay-lah paw-rig ur-iv") which means "St. Patrick's Day blessing opun you"

And to all of you...a wee bit belatedly!


* (and the tile above means "Kiss me I'm Irish!)