NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release:  Thursday, March 24, 2005
 

VICE AND NARCOTICS INVESTIGATION RESULTS IN SEIZURE OF LOADED GUN, AMMUNITION, AND MARIJUANA.

(Hartford) - On March 23, 2005, at approximately 2:45 p.m., detectives of the Hartford Police Department's Vice and Narcotics Division conducted an investigation into large scale marijuana sales in the Albany Avenue area. 

As a result of the investigation, detectives seized a loaded 9 mm Smith and Wesson handgun with a high capacity 15 round magazine containing hollow point bullets, 27 boxes of marijuana with a street value of approximately $1,000.00, and $400.00 in U.S. Currency.  The recovered firearm was found to be listed as stolen out of Colchester, Connecticut in January of 2002. 

Arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance, possession with intent to sell (PWITS), PWITS within 1,500' of a school, criminal possession of a firearm, theft of a firearm, carrying a pistol without a permit and carrying a weapon in a motor vehicle was Leonard Reddick, DOB 06/08/71, or 37 Huntington Street, Hartford.  Reddick's bond was set at $250,000.

See picture of seized firearm and drugs.

Contact:   Nancy Mulroy, Public Information Officer, Hartford Police Department,  (860) 543-8746
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