WAKEFIELD, Mass.—The Massachusetts State Police have identified eight of the 11 males who were arrested following an hourslong armed standoff that partially shut down Interstate 95. They were charged with a variety of offenses, including unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition and the use of body armor in commission of a crime, police said in a news release issued late Saturday. Troopers recovered three AR-15 rifles, two pistols, a bolt-action rifle, a shotgun, and a short-barrel rifle. The group refers to itself as a militia and said they adhere to “Moorish Sovereign Ideology,” police said. One of the people arrested was a male juvenile and two others refused to give their names. The standoff began early Saturday when a Massachusetts State Police trooper stopped to offer assistance to the vehicles he found on the side of the highway in the town of Wakefield. Police later said they were refueling. …
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