PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A former janitor at The Providence Journal will not be criminally prosecuted for bringing a loaded .22-caliber pistol and ammunition to work last spring.
The attorney general's office decided not to proceed with the case against 50-year-old Paul Tremblay because the gun didn't work, said spokeswoman Amy Kempe.
State law says that a firearm must be operable or readily converted to fire in order to charge someone with carrying without a license, Kempe said.
Tremblay, who'd worked at The Journal since 1985, was arrested April 23 after two other janitors cleaning a fourth-floor copy room found the gun and ammunition inside his backpack.
Tremblay was fired May 2 and won't get his job back. The Journal has a zero-tolerance policy on weapons.