North Carolina Man Tied to Gun Left in NYC Hotel Lobby
By MICHAEL WILSON
A security-camera image apparently of Bobby Glen Jackson in the screening lane at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum on April 15. The police say Mr. Jackson hid a gun in a hotel lobby after learning that he would not be able to take it into the memorial.
The man who inadvertently set off a sweeping police investigation when he hid his pistol under a cushion in a World Trade Center hotel lobby — minutes before the Boston Marathon bombing — was a tourist simply in a hurry to stow it and get back to his tour group, a relative said on Monday.
The man, Bobby Glen Jackson, 59, was arrested on Saturday in Fayetteville, N.C., and was scheduled to be brought to New York City on Monday to face charges of criminal possession of a weapon and reckless endangerment, the police said. Mr. Jackson owns a pressure-washing business in Fayetteville and does security work, which is why he owns a pistol, said the relative, who asked to remain anonymous.
“He’s not perfect by any means, but he’s a good man,” the relative said. “He’s a God-fearing man. If what had happened there had happened here, and it hadn’t been times like now, everything would be O.K., because everybody would know him.”
As I wrote in Saturday’s Crime Scene column, around 2 p.m. last Monday a man entered the lobby of the World Center Hotel and tucked a pistol under a seat cushion in the lobby. A woman discovered the gun when she sat on it a short while later, and a manager alerted police officers outside. The hotel is directly beside the entrance to the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, where security is heavy and firearms are forbidden.
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