STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 A 55-year-old man was arrested after police allege they recovered a loaded gun at his home in South Beach.<\/p>\n
A domestic dispute prompted the police response during which the firearm was found, according to a source with knowledge of the investigation.<\/p>\n
Williams Damms of Jackson Avenue was arrested on Dec. 30 around noon after officers confiscated a 9 mm Beretta pistol with 13 bullets in its magazine, according to the criminal complaint. <\/p>\n
The complaint alleges that the defendant \u201cdoes not have a license to carry or possess a firearm in the City of New York and is not a dealer in rifles or shotguns in New York City.\u201d<\/p>\n
Damms has been charged with criminal possession of a firearm and criminal possession of a weapon.<\/p>\n
The defendant has pleaded not guilty to all charges and has been released with non-monetary conditions. <\/p>\n
He is due back in Criminal Court in St. George on Jan. 12, according to public records.<\/p>\n
An attorney for the defendant did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 A 55-year-old man was arrested after police allege they recovered a loaded gun at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-93575","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\/93575","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=93575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}