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19 Year Old Arrested on Gun and Drug Charges

According to CBS 12 in Providence, police arrested a 19-year-old man earlier this week after he took off running from a traffic stop. Shortly after officers pulled a vehicle over Monday night near Spring Street where a masked passenger got out of the car and started running. The suspect entered a nearby parking lot before tossing what appeared to be a firearm over a nearby fence. Luis Garcia, was taken into custody following a brief struggle. Garcia had 29 individually wrapped baggies of crack cocaine on him, and the firearm he tossed over the fence was a loaded pistol. Police also located 29 grams of marijuana on him and more than $400 in cash. Garcia has been arrested and released on bail twice last year, once for a similar incident.

 

Garcia is now being charged with trafficking in excess of 18 grams of cocaine, trespassing, carrying a loaded firearm, carrying ammunition and a high-capacity feeding device while committing a felony.

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