Chelsea Police Chief Keith Houghton yesterday asked a Suffolk Superior Court judge to overturn a decision by a Chelsea District Court judge ordering him to issue a license to carry to a man the chief thinks doesn't deserve one because of an arrest on a fentanyl-trafficking charge in 2019.

"These errors are so substantial and material that failure to correct them will result in manifest injustice to the Plaintiff and pose a substantial threat to public safety," a city attorney wrote in the request for "certiorari" or judicial review.

Houghton denied the man's request for a gun license based on a 2019 arrest in Lynn, which came after police there spotted what appeared to be a drug transaction in his car, ordered him out and found more than 10 grams of fentanyl, as well as a folding knife i

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