Crime & Safety

Illegal Guns Found During Search for Bed Bugs

While searching for bed bugs in a South End apartment, a pest control crew found two guns.

Two South End residents face weapons charges today after pest control inspectors found guns in their apartment.

Sayira Cooper, 24, of the South End, and Dannie E. Levy, 29, of Mattapan were charged with unlawful possession of firearm, possession of firearm with altered serial numbers, improper storage of firearm and unlawful possession of ammunition, according to police.

Upon a routine bed bug inspection, a crew lifted a mattress in the master bedroom of an apartment at 16 E. Brookline St. Saturday afternoon. They found two guns and called police, according to police. Police then arrested Cooper and Levy. 

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