Report of Drug Dealer Leads to Arrest, Recovery of Stolen Gun

Bicycle patrol officers from Portland Police's Central Precinct, responded to a report of a man dealing drugs just north of the Burnside Bridge.

There, they found 45-year-old Jeffrey Lamar Seward, whom they knew from previous contacts.

Based on information they had, they arrested him for dealing heroin.

Searching his backpack and pockets, they found a syringe with what they believed to be heroin as an amount of what they thought to be heroin.

They also found a handgun that turned out to be stolen.

Seward was booked into the Multnomah County Jail on charge of Delivery of Heroin, Possession of Heroin, Felon in Possession of a Firearm, Theft in the First Degree, Attempted Possession of Methamphetamine, Possession of a Loaded Firearm, and Possession of a Controlled Substance in the Fourth Degree.