Crime & Safety
Danbury Man Faces Firearm Charge in Southeast
He has a Connecticut gun permit but not a New York gun permit.
New York State Police arrested Kerzell Barnes of Danbury, CT for Criminal Possession of a Firearm at about 3 a.m. May 3.
Barnes’s vehicle was stopped for an inadequate plate lamp on I-684 in Southeast; and the trooper saw a black handgun on the back seat of the vehicle in plain view.
Barnes, 30, possess a valid pistol permit for the firearm in Connecticut but no pistol permit in New York, police said.
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He was charged with Criminal Possession of a Firearm (a class E Felony) and issued an Appearance Ticket returnable to Southeast town court May 14.
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