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Police accuse Falls man of running with loaded gun

Published:July 29, 2010, 12:00 AM

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Updated: July 29, 2010, 7:18 AM

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.”

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