NIAGARA FALLS—The Roving Anti-Crime Unit charged a man who was running with a loaded gun Tuesday evening on Packard Court.

Samuel C. Hopkins, 22, of Niagara Street, was charged with felony second- degree criminal possession of a weapon and felony tampering with physical evidence by Officer Joseph Palermo and Nicholas Granto just before 6 p. m.

Hopkins was chased by officers and observed throwing a “silver object” in-to a garbage can, which police found to be a loaded .22 Magnum revolver. Hopkins told police the gun wasn’t his and that he was “just transporting it.”