Nashville Juvenile Crime Task Force Arrests Convicted Felon For Possessing Stolen Guns, Cocaine

Press release from the City of Nashville:

4/17/2020

The stop of a Dodge pickup truck for having a license plate that expired last August has led to the arrest of a convicted drug felon for possessing four pistols, three of them stolen.

Juvenile Crime Task Force officers stopped the truck, driven by Delbert Porter, 41, on N. 5th Street. Porter immediately jumped out of the driver’s seat, smelled strongly of marijuana, and admitted to officers that he had a baggie of marijuana on him. Also found were 1.5 grams of cocaine and an empty gun holster. In the grass, just outside the truck, was a Smith & Wesson revolver, which Porter acknowledged was his by saying it only had three bullets in it. The revolver had been stolen from Clifton, Tennessee, in Wayne County. During an interview, Porter who was convicted of felony cocaine, marijuana and gun possession in 2004, admitted that there were additional guns in his nearby residence. Found during the execution of a search warrant were two pistols underneath a mattress and another pistol in between the cushions of a couch in the living room. Two of the three guns found in the home had been reported stolen in Nashville.

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