Police say that the explosive vest was stolen in May 2020, when there were riots in Boston after George Floyd was killed.
Police in Boston found a bulletproof coat that had been taken from an officer during a protest in May 2020 over the death of George Floyd, who was killed by police.
Police say that the vest was found last week in Dorchester during a drug probe.
Officers arrested Reginald Mells, a 44-year-old man from Dorchester. A 25-year-old man from Dorchester, whose name was not given, is also being looked into.
From May 28 to May 31, 2020, several thousand people gathered in Boston over the death of Floyd while he was in police custody in Minneapolis. Several protesters and Boston police officers got into fights, which led to multiple arrests and the use of pepper spray on protesters.
Police say that they found the explosive vest on September 22 while searching a house near 6 Darlington St.
During the search, police say they found illegal guns and drugs, including 15 bags of what they think is crack cocaine.
Investigators also said they found a Colt handgun with six rounds in the magazine, a Remington.223 rifle with two 30-round magazines, an 8mm semi-automatic gun, a fully automatic Glock with an extended magazine, 24 live.45 rounds, 12.40 rounds, and several empty magazines.
Mells was charged with illegally having a gun, illegally having ammunition, and having a class B drug with the plan to sell it. He was arraigned in Dorchester District Court on Monday.
A story from the Boston Globe says that he pleaded not guilty to all of the charges and was ordered to be held without bail. Mells has a court date on Nov. 17.
The 25-year-old suspect will be charged with illegally having a machine gun, two counts of illegally having a gun, illegally having ammunition, illegally having a large capacity feeding device, improperly storing a gun, having body armour, and having a rifle without a serial number.
