Lynn: Armed arrests of two men for Boston murder - SEE VIDEO
ARMED police carried out a dramatic noon swoop in Lynn’s Saturday Market Place on Friday to arrest two men wanted in connection with the murder of a Boston man.
Shoppers and people in nearby premises watched in amazement as about 20 police officers carried out the operation with military precision.
The police, including eight or nine officers wearing black helmets and bullet-proof jackets and armed with machine guns, had cordoned off the market place.
Terry Pacey, 64, a security officer at Lynn Magistrates’ Court, was heading towards the High Street News shop to get some cigars when he saw the drama unfold.
He said: “It was a very tense atmosphere. People were standing watching in disbelief.
“The police cars and wagons came into the market place from the police station end and officers were jumping out of them, while an armed squad was shouting and screaming at three men near Wenns to get on the ground.
“They were cuffed while they were on the ground on their fronts and the armed squad kept their guns trained on them.”
Mrs Jenny Thomas, at High Street News, said: “I was just serving customers when I heard the noise and saw police with dogs and guns. They’d cordoned off the whole market place.
“They kept shouting ‘get down’ and I nearly did because I didn’t know what was going on.
“It worried everyone more because of what happened last week with the armed robbery.”
Gillian Panks, 46, manager of Wenns pub, said: “These men were just walking from the centre of town when about eight police vehicles screeched up outside.
“The three men who were stopped all sounded eastern European. The police were shouting at them whether they had any knives or guns on them.
“We tried to look out of the entrance to the pub but they shouted at us to get back inside.”
Two of the men, Piotr Firlit, 23, and Bartlomiej Marszalkiewicz, 25, both from Boston, have been charged with murdering Jan Pawel Stochnialek, 28, who was found dead in the South Forty Foot Drain in Boston on January 25.
Lynn Superintendent Dave Marshall said: “A number of armed units were deployed to ensure a swift outcome.
“Public safety was at the heart of our planning and at no time was anyone put at risk.”
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