PORTLAND (AP) — Federal weapons charges have been filed against a Maine man who had numerous weapons in his car and told police he had attended “The Dark Knight Rises” Batman movie with a loaded gun in his backpack.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office said Tuesday that 49-year-old Timothy Courtois of Biddeford has been charged with making a false statement while buying a firearm and two counts of possession of firearms by an unlawful user of controlled substances.
Officials say Courtois had six firearms, ammunition and news clippings about last week’s Colorado theater shootings in his car when he was arrested Sunday on the Maine Turnpike.
Prosecutors say Courtois said he wasn’t a drug user when he purchased a .223-caliber rifle at Cabela’s, even though he was using marijuana and synthetic marijuana.
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