Multiple shots fired from stolen gun
Weatherly man has been charged with firing multiple shots from a gun he stole from a house he was cleaning out.
According to the affidavit of probable cause filed by patrolman Edward Kubert of the Weatherly Police Department in the case against James Pollin:
A woman who lives in the 600 block of North Street called on April 12, saying that she heard about 10 shots coming from the area of Hill Street and Laurel Street. The caller said her security camera showed a man identified as Pollin, 33, was walking south on Hill Street right after the shot.
Kubert reviewed the video surveillance that the police have on Hill Street and East Main Street and witnessed a man in a hoodie walking to the area of the shots at 2:17 a.m. and departing at 2:21 a.m.
He was spotted on cameras on East Main Street, and seen walking north on Hill Street and then he fired more shots.
Police found several rounds of 9 mm on the ground with beer cans shot up and a blue plastic barrel with several gunshots.
Police went to Pollin’s residence. When he was asked several times to step out and speak to police about gunshots in the area, Pollin refused and began to fight with officers.
When he was in custody, Pollin said that he was on probation, and said the gun was in his top drawer in his dresser.
Police located a Taurus PT 92 AFS, loaded with a round in the chamber and 10 more rounds in the magazine. Police also located a wet hoodie fitting the description seen in the video.
Pollin admitted to walking from the house twice, firing the gun about 10 times each, totaling around 20 rounds at full cans of beer and a blue 55-gallon barrel.
Pollin told Kubert that he was helping a friend clean out a hoarder’s house on Tunnel Road in White Haven, found the Taurus handgun in the house that he was cleaning out along with a bunch of other firearms.
Pollin said he stole the Taurus handgun, but claimed he left the other guns in the house.
Pollin has been charged with possession of firearm prohibited; receiving stolen property; firearms not to be carried without a license; recklessly endangering another person; resisting arrest; scatter rubbish upon land/stream; and public drunkenness and similar misconduct.
He is currently incarcerated in the Carbon County Correctional Facility in lieu of $50,000 bail, and scheduled to have a preliminary hearing May 19 before District Judge Joseph D. Homanko Sr. of Weatherly.