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"The brother of former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown was arrested Thursday on weapons charges after he was accused of impersonating a police officer in Connecticut.Bruce W. Browne, 46, of Wolcott, Conn., was spotted walking down a street in Old Lyme, Conn., wearing military-style clothing and carrying a gun, police said. The person who called police said they saw Browne earlier driving what was described as a \"police-type vehicle.\"According to Wolcott Police Chief Edward Stephens, Browne said he was the former senator's brother. Stephens said Browne added the \"e\" to the end of his name \"some years ago.\"Old Lyme police said they found the car, a 2004 blue Crown Victoria, and said it was equipped with hideaway lights and antennas mounted on the trunk.When police questioned Browne, who said he was the owner of the car, he admitted he was walking down the street wearing a gun belt with a loaded 9mm handgun.Officials said they also found three loaded handguns, 12 fully loaded magazines, a black nylon duty belt with two sets of handcuffs, an expandable baton and dozens of rounds of ammunition.Browne also had a black tactical bullet-proof vest with the word \"POLICE\" embroidered on the front and back and a silver metal TSA badge attached, police said.Police said Browne also identified himself as a \"Police/Coast Guard\" earlier in the day and stopped three boats off the shore of Point O Woods.News 9 spoke to the former senator in Rye, and he said he had just heard about the arrest.\"Obviously, they're very serious charges and something he\u2019s going to have to answer to,\" Brown said.He said that he's not close to his brother and rarely sees him. Brown said his parents had married and divorced four times, so there are extended branches of his family that he doesn't keep in touch with regularly.\"We don\u2019t see him too often,\" Brown said. \"He\u2019s in Connecticut and pretty much estranged from the family, but I feel bad for his kids and his wife.\"Browne was arrested and charged with impersonating a police officer, breach of peace, interfering with a police officer and possession of a dangerous weapon in a motor vehicle.He was released on a $50,000 bond and is due back in court on Aug. 22.Brown appeared at a fundraiser in Salem on Friday night and said he misses being part of the action in Washington but didn't miss the partisan gridlock.\"There are extremes on the left and the right, and in the middle ... very few of us,\" Brown said. \"I'm gone. Olympia Snowe is gone. Richard Lugar, Kent Conrad, Joe Liebermann, gone.\"Brown wouldn't say if he's looking to take on Sen. Jeanne Shaheen in New Hampshire or if he's considering a bid for Massachusetts governor.\"I got people asking me to do a lot of things, but I need to do what's important for me,\" Brown said. \"I'm enjoying being on Fox. I'm enjoying being on Nixon Peabody and speaking all over the world, helping other candidates, so there will be a time and place. I don't think I'm done, but I'm not quite sure what I'm going to be doing.\"State Rep. Joe Sweeney, R-Salem, brought Brown to Salem for the fundraiser and said what makes the former senator successful is that he's not a typical politician.\"That approachability that he has -- that he can respond to an email that a 19-year-old state representative sends him -- I think that part of it makes him extremely human compared to some of the other U.S. senators and congressmen we've had,\" Sweeney said.State Sen. Chuck Morse said this is a time for the New Hampshire GOP to kick the tires of a number of potential candidates.\"We need these kind of discussions,\" Morse said. \"It's a Friday night. I was joking about it being a night the Patriots were playing, but I think that's what we need in New Hampshire. I think we need Republicans to get out and start to talk.\"12967056"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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