Two kids facing gun charges

Jersey Journal
Wednesday, October 08, 2008

Jersey City police arrested two juveniles in separate incidents and charged them with having illegal handguns, officials said.

Police doing surveillance in a high crime area of Brinkerhoff Street at 1:08 a.m. yesterday saw a 17-year-old Belmont Avenue boy walking down Monticello Avenue and repeatedly reaching into his waistband, reports said.

They watched as he walked up to a residence on Brinkerhoff, took a small silver handgun out of his waistband and put it in a flower pot on the front steps, reports said. The officers stopped the boy as he was walking back from his home and they recovered the gun, reports said.

At 7:29 p.m. last Thursday, police received a call from a Dales Avenue woman who said she found a gun in her 16-year-old son's room, reports said. Police responded and found the .357 caliber revolver hidden behind a dresser drawer and arrested the boy on the charge of unlawful possession of a weapon, reports said.

MICHAELANGELO CONTE