Man arrested for carrying a gun in the mall

By Darras Lattier, Newsnow

Posted: Nov 16, 2009 9:33 AM
Updated: Nov 16, 2009 9:50 AM

Monroe police officers arrested a man on charges of carrying a weapon in the mall.

Authorities say Joshua Willis, 20, was walking around the Pecanland Mall in Monroe with a gun. Willis was said to have been seen carrying the gun in the waistband of his pants. As police recovered the weapon, they found it was a pellet gun that looked like a semi-automatic handgun.

Willis was arrested on charges of illegally carrying a weapon and possession of a weapon by a convicted felon.

 

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    KBCraig at Nov 16th 2009 8:17 PM

    While it sounds like young mister Willis is headed down the wrong road, he didn't break the law.

    RS 14:95 says:
    A.  Illegal carrying of weapons is:

    (1)  The intentional concealment of any firearm, or other instrumentality customarily used or intended for probable use as a dangerous weapon, on one's person;

    And, RS 14:3 says the criminal code has to be interpreted by the plain meaning of the words. There is no definition of "weapon" that includes a pellet gun.

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