Train-Track Pursuit Leads to Gun Arrests

Somerville police arrested three men Monday night after chasing them on train tracks near McGrath Highway and calling in a bomb- and gun-sniffing dog to find a gun hidden in bushes.

Police arrested James Flint, 20, of 10 Morton St., Keith Francey, 21, of 18 Broadway, and Cody Domings, 21, of Gilman Street, in connection to the incident. The men face charges of carrying a loaded firearm, carrying a firearm without a license, defacing the serial number on a firearm, carrying ammunition without a firearms ID card, trespassing, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.

The incident began with an altercation on Gilman Street, according to a report from Somerville police.

A man, with his girlfriend in the passenger seat, had parked his car on Gilman Street a little before 6:49 p.m. in order to pick up his son and his son's new girlfriend, the report says. It says the group was planning to go out to dinner.

Suddenly, a group of four men surrounded the car. One of the men was the brother of one of the women in the car. He yelled that his sister needed to get out of the car.

Eventually, the four men allegedly began punching and kicking the car. Domings, the report alleges, took off his shirt and screamed, "Let's go." Another of the men pointed a gun at the car and allegedly said, "Let's just end them now," the report says.

The driver of the car saw an opportunity to flee, so he drove away quickly, and the four men began chasing the car before running off, the report says.

A woman saw the men running through her back yard and called police, it says.

When police searched her back yard, which abuts the train tracks near Gilman Street, they saw three men on the tracks.

Police set up a perimeter and stationed officers near entrances and exits to the train tracks, according to the report.

One officer saw the men dump something in bushes, and when he shined his flashlight on them, two of them took off in different directions. He captured Flint.

Other officers detained Francey near the Alston Street side of the tracks, and he had Clonazepam pills on him, the report says.

Officers also responded to Domings' house, and after his mother said no one was at home, Cody Domings eventually came out of the house and was placed under arrest, according to the report.

Police brought in "Hart," an ordinance-sniffing K9 from the Everett Police Department, who sniffed out a .22 caliber gun in the bushes on the train track, the report says. IT says the gun's serial number had been scratched off.

Domings was previously arrested, in March, after a SWAT team and K9s raided his home, discovering marijuana and cash, much of it hidden in a Simpson's video game.