Man sentenced to probation after shooting at squirrel which he thought was coyote but turned out to be his neighbor's bed

Dr. Arthur Geltzer, 68, of Provincetown and Rhode Island, the optometrist who could have faced a mandatory one-year jail sentence for possession of an unregistered fire arm, was placed on one-year probation Monday after he agreed to a plea bargain with the district attorney's office.

Leonard Enos III, who represented Geltzer at the hearing, said a plea agreement was worked out to dispose of the case. There was no admission of wrong doing on Geltzer's part, he said.

Geltzer had been charged with possession of an unregistered firearm and discharging a gun within 500 feet of a residence.