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Gun Possession Sparks Two Arrests

By Lauren Williams

11/29/2016

(KAIR)--Two teenagers land behind bars following charges related to illegal weapon possession.

“It was around 11:00 on Thursday evening when officers responded to the 500 block of North River Road regarding reports of shots fired,” said Atchison Police Chief Mike Wilson. “At the same time, a vehicle description was given to the officers through dispatch describing the vehicle that left the area. One of the officers spotted that vehicle near Fifth and Main and stopped the vehicle.”

He says 18-year-old Ioannis Markou was arrested for criminal possession of a weapon by a felon and possession of liquor by an underage person and another 16-year-old male was arrested for criminal possession of a weapon by a felon, unlawful discharge of a firearm in city limits and possession of alcohol by an underage person.

Wilson says two others were in the vehicle as well and they were charged with possession of alcohol by an underage person.

“What we have kind of determined after completing that Thursday evening investigation is that there may have been some type of confrontation down on the River Road, Wilson added. “We believe there were two groups in two different vehicles. Following the confrontation, one of the vehicles had left and that’s when we came in contact with it and took four of these individuals into custody.”

Wilson said they believe at least one shot was fired into the air.

He said two guns were seized from those charged.

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