Teenager Arrested After Police Find Loaded Gun
Posted By
Karen on May 27, 2010 9:46am PDT
Mount Vernon - Quincy Williams, 19, of Cortlandt Street was arrested and charged Monday with second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, a felony, after police said they found him with a loaded handgun during a traffic stop.
Police said he was arrested shortly after 11 a.m. during a stop by the Westchester County and Mount Vernon police at Union Avenue and East 5th Street. County police had sought Mount Vernon's assistance because one of the occupants of the vehicle might be carrying a weapon, county police spokesman Kieran O'Leary said.
When officers approached the car, they smelled marijuana and also saw Williams (a rear-seat passenger) repeatedly reaching inside his jacket, O'Leary said. He was found with a Rossi .38-caliber revolver, police said then he was held overnight at county police headquarters and arraigned Tuesday in City Court.
The front-seat passenger Edward Ramirez (26 of Yonkers) was charged with unlawful possession of marijuana, a violation, after marijuana was found near where he had been seated. Ramirez was taken in to the Valhalla county jail because of an active federal probation warrant.
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