Standoff suspect had familiar weapons at hand, shrugged off tasers in an earlier Boston incident

Marc Levy A Central Square ambassador cleans at a bus stop where a man was reported wielding two machetes Aug. 1.

Boston police saw a machete and knives outside a bedroom where Princiano Faustin was holed up before the 51-year-old man was arrested July 29 for allegedly assaulting a police officer – and then released without having to post bail. Three days later, Faustin allegedly went on a Central Square rampage with two machetes, injuring two people, before fleeing to his nearby apartment and barricading himself inside in an 18-hour standoff with Cambridge police.

Faustin is now at Bridgewater State Hospital for mental health treatment and an evaluation of his competency to stand trial. He faces nine charges, including armed assault to murder and mayhem. In the Boston case, Faustin