COLUMBUS, Ind. — A local man was arrested Wednesday night after Columbus police officers located a stolen handgun inside his vehicle during a traffic stop.
At approximately 11:20 p.m., CPD officers stopped a vehicle near 11th Street and
California Street after observing the vehicle had only one working headlight. When officers made contact with the driver of the vehicle, Elias D. Marshall, 22, they noted that he was visibly nervous. The officers observed a handgun next to the driver’s seat and secured the weapon a short time later, said Lt. Matt Harris, Columbus Police Department spokesman. The officers were advised that the handgun was reported stolen out of Indianapolis after checking the weapon’s serial number.
Marshall was placed under arrest a short time later and remanded to the Bartholomew County Jail on a preliminary charge of Theft of a Firearm/Possession of Stolen Property (Level 5 felony).
