Vicksburg man jailed for stolen handgun

Published 11:37 am Wednesday, August 24, 2011

A Vicksburg man was in the Warren County Jail this morning charged with possession of a stolen firearm and possession of a controlled substance.

Eddie J. Owens, 26, was arrested in the parking lot at Confederate Ridge Apartments on U.S. 61 North just after midnight this morning, said Warren County Sheriff Martin Pace.

“We’ve had deputies checking some of the hot spots where we’ve had reports of drug activity, and when they drove through last night, they saw a group of people standing by a car and one looked like he was dropping something into the car,” Pace said this morning.

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“Deputies searched him and found marijuana, but then found a 9 mm handgun in the car,” Pace said. The car did not belong to Owens, he said.

A check on a national crime registry showed the weapon had been reported stolen to the Vicksburg Police Department.

The other people at the scene were not arrested, Pace said.