Police: Ex-Con Arrested With Illegal Gun, Drugs After Fleeing Traffic Stop

EAST NASHVILLE, TN — Metro Police arrested a convicted felon after he allegedly tried to flee a traffic stop on Main Street Monday night.

Two officers tried to pull over a Saturn Vue around 9:30 p.m., which was slow to pull over, eventually making a U-turn into a parking lot and with the driver then trying to escape by foot.

Officers ordered the driver, identified as Joshua Hogan, 23, to stop. He then pulled a handgun from his waistband and threw it in some nearby bushes. After he was taken into custody, investigators found a .40-caliber, semi-automatic pistol with an extended magazine in the bushes. The handgun was reportedly stolen in Florida.

Officers also found seven grams of cocaine, digital scales, a black bandanna and $153 in cash.

Hogan was convicted of three counts of facilitating aggravated robbery in April 2016 and one count of robbery in 2014, and was serving a sentence of supervised probation.

Hogan is charged with gun possession by a convicted felon, gun possession during a drug offense, felony cocaine possession in a drug-free zone, felony theft, driving on a revoked license and probation violation. He is being held in the Metro Jail without bond.

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