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Man Arrested Outside John Kerry's Beacon Hill Home

A man arrested outside U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's Boston home with what police say was a pellet gun in his car is being held on unrelated charges.

State Department security officers spotted the man parked in a no-parking zone Sunday afternoon and called police.

Police say the man, 29-year-old Vladimir Romanov of Boston, told security officers he was taking pictures to show a friend. When asked to move his vehicle, he said he'd been drinking.

Kerry spokesman Glen Johnson says the man was taking pictures of a window in Kerry's house. Kerry, a former U.S. senator from Massachusetts, was not home.

Romanov was arraigned Monday. A municipal court judge revoked Romanov's bail on an unrelated assault charge and ordered him held for allegedly violating probation on an earlier drunken driving case.

This article was originally published on July 15, 2013.

This program aired on July 15, 2013. The audio for this program is not available.

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