STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Police responding to a report of shots fired arrested a 50-year-old man in New Springville, according to sources.<\/p>\n
Jesus Ramirez, 50, of Merrymount Street, was found on Nov. 5 at about 7:25 p.m. with a gun in the pocket of his hooded sweatshirt on Richmond Avenue between Nome Avenue and Richmond Hill Road, according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
The revolver had a .38-caliber shell casing inside the cylinder, while a .45-caliber bullet was also found in the pocket of the defendant\u2019s hoodie, the complaint alleges.<\/p>\n
Officers had been called to the area for a report of shots fired, according to a source with knowledge of the investigation.<\/p>\n
The complaint alleges that Ramirez made incriminating statements to police, including that he fired the gun.<\/p>\n
\u201cI found [the] gun in Port Richmond about a month ago,\u201d the complaint alleges Ramirez told police. \u201cI was going to throw it in the lake in Richmond Avenue, but I shot it because I wanted to make it safe.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ramirez resisted arrest by refusing to place his hands behind his back in order to be handcuffed, the complaint alleges.<\/p>\n
Ramirez has been charged with criminal possession of a weapon, criminal possession of a firearm, resisting arrest and possession of ammunition.<\/p>\n
Ramirez pleaded not guilty to all charges. <\/p>\n
The defendant is free on bail set at $10,000 bond\/$5,000 cash and is due back in Criminal Court in St. George on Jan. 26, according to public records.<\/p>\n
Attorney Marion Linthicum, who is representing Ramirez, declined to comment at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Police responding to a report of shots fired arrested a 50-year-old man in New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-67755","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}