Stock Island man charged with gun possession

Deputies arrested a Stock Island man Wednesday afternoon for improperly exhibiting a firearm and for being a felon in possession of a firearm.

Sheriff’s dispatchers received reports just before 5 p.m. of a man waving a black colored revolver around at the Tom Thumb convenience store on Stock Island. Another caller reported shots fired at  a nearby trailer park on Maloney Avenue. Deputies Jenna Moeller and Freddy Rodriguez responded. The caller said the man with the gun was a black male wearing green shorts; he was reported to be with a black female with dreadlocks and the two were traveling together on a green three wheeled scooter.

Deputy Moeller spotted them on Maloney Avenue and pulled them over. A search of them both turned up a revolver tucked in the man’s waistband. It was a loaded .22 caliber Heritage Roughrider. Three rounds had been fired.

The man with the gun was identified as 20 year old Ashley Avilmar. A check on Avilmar’s name revealed he is a convicted felon and, thus, not allowed to carry a gun.

Deputy Rodriguez went to the Tom Thumb and watched surveillance video of the incident. The video showed Avilmar waving  the gun around.

During questioning, Avilmar and the woman he was with said they had a confrontation with another couple. Avilmar said he just wanted to let the other man know he had a gun.

Avilmar was arrested, charged with improper exhibition of a firearm and being a felon in possession of a firearm and he was booked into jail.

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