MASSACHUSETTS, Aug 23: Secret Service agents guarding President Bill Clinton arrested a man who took a ferry to Martha's vineyard and raised suspicions on the resort island by asking about directions to the President's vacation lodgings.Agents alerted by people who encountered him arrested Robert E Ross, 50, of Danbury on Thursday, Bristol county assistant district attorney David Crowley told The Standard Times of New Bedford.
Ross was unarmed but he told the agents he had left guns in his car.
Police found a loaded .38-calibre handgun, a loaded vintage derringer single-shot pistol and ammunition.
Ross was arraigned yesterday on two counts of possessing a firearm without a permit.
He pleaded innocent and will be held on 10,000 dollars bail.
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