18-year-old arrested on gun and drug charges
Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Christian Michael Brown, 18, was arrested late last night after officers reportedly found marijuana, MDMA pills, and a handgun in his backpack.
Brown was reportedly the back seat passenger in a car that was pulled over by a Gainesville Police Department officer at about 11:46 p.m. on December 12 in the 200 block of SE 11th Street because the car was traveling at a high rate of speed and the registered owner’s license is suspended.
The officer reported that he immediately smelled marijuana when he approached the car, and the occupants were asked to get out of the car.
A search of the vehicle reportedly produced a backpack in the back seat containing a 9mm handgun, 10 pills that tested positive for MDMA, 31 grams of marijuana, and a scale.
Post Miranda, Brown reportedly said the car was small and the backpack “was just in the back seat” and was not his. However, the officer noted that Brown’s phone was found inside the backpack and the wallpaper on the phone is a picture of Brown with a backpack on his back that appears to be the one found in the car.
A shell casing was also reportedly found in the car and collected as evidence.
Brown has been charged with possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, possession of a controlled substance, and illegal possession of a concealed firearm. He has a juvenile conviction for grand theft of a firearm. Judge Susan Miller-Jones set bail at $70,000.
Articles about arrests are based on reports from law enforcement agencies. The charges listed are taken from the arrest report and/or court records and are only accusations. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
18 years old and well on his way to a jail sentence. Idiotic.
More like on his way to be another “man on probation.”
There’s nothing our state attorneys love more than allowing “disparately impacted youth” a fourteenth chance instead of putting them in prison where they belong.
‘He has a juvenile conviction for grand theft of a firearm.’
Just thought it needed mentioning again for the liberal idiots who choose to filter out things they don’t want to acknowledge.
Advice for those people – stop blaming it on others.
Maybe Joke Bidumbdumb will pardon him too? Kind of like Obama…except Joke can actually claim he actually does have a son like Christian Brown?
It’s a good thing he’s now a felon and lost his voting rights.
Given the dumbass choices he’s made, can you imagine the idiots he would vote for?
Yall can get off my man on this app thank you keep you feeling to yourself .
If he yo’ man, yo may wanna fine ‘nother to git up on. He ain’t no good zample fo any childens.
Throw him in jail he has already had one chance, he decided not to stay clean after the first time.