NEW BETHLEHEM \u2013 A 58-year-old New Bethlehem man was charged with illegally possessing a firearm at a Lafayette Street home in the borough on Jan. 20.<\/p>\n
Brian Ashley Leonard was charged with possession of a firearm by a person prohibited from doing so.<\/p>\n
Southern Clarion County Regional Police Officer Stephen Mazik was dispatched to a domestic disturbance with a possible weapon involved.<\/p>\n
At the scene, police said they met Stacy Leonard who said Brian Leonard was in the house and had a handgun which she did not want in the residence.<\/p>\n
After searching Brian Leonard, police reportedly found a fully loaded Taurus 9mm gun under a couch cushion. The gun had two magazines with 21 rounds total.<\/p>\n
When asked, Leonard advised police there was also a shotgun in an upstairs closet, which police said was fully loaded with five rounds total.<\/p>\n
Police said Brian Leonard is not allowed to possess a handgun due to a prior felony in a case out of Mercer County.<\/p>\n
The charge was filed with District Judge Jeffrey C. Miller on Feb. 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW BETHLEHEM \u2013 A 58-year-old New Bethlehem man was charged with illegally possessing a firearm at a Lafayette…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,296],"class_list":["post-130325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}