JACKSONVILLE, N.C. \u2014 A Jacksonville man is being held in the Onslow County Jail after police say he possessed a firearm despite a prior felony conviction and injured two officers during an investigation.<\/p>\n
According to charging documents, 47-year-old Cornelius Kenyatta Koonce was arrested June 10 and charged with possession of a firearm by a felon by the Jacksonville Police Department. Investigators allege Koonce was in possession of a derringer pistol. Court records show he was previously convicted of robbery with a dangerous weapon in Onslow County.<\/p>\n
Police also charged Koonce with two counts of assault inflicting physical injury on a law enforcement officer. Charging documents allege two Jacksonville police officers suffered injuries during the incident.<\/p>\n
In addition, Koonce is charged with resisting a public officer. Authorities say he pulled away from officers and attempted to flee while they were conducting an investigation.<\/p>\n
Investigators also allege Koonce unlawfully entered a building at the Red Carpet Inn on North Marine Boulevard, leading to a misdemeanor breaking or entering charge.<\/p>\n
Koonce remains in the Onslow County Jail. A judge ordered him held without bond on the firearm charge and set a $25,000 secured bond on the remaining charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, N.C. \u2014 A Jacksonville man is being held in the Onslow County Jail after police say he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-303660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}