Dec. 19--EDMOND -- An Edmond man, 19, was recently arrested for allegedly using a BB gun in violation of a related city law, police said.
Friday afternoon, Edmond Police Officer Joseph Delpha was dispatched in response to a call about an armed person in the area of 15th Street and Santa Fe Avenue, according to a report filed by Delpha.
Dispatch told the officer a person had pointed a "gun" out the window of a red Toyota that was in the area south on Santa Fe, police said. The officer caught up with the car at Santa Fe and Memorial and performed a felony traffic stop.
The suspects were ordered from the car one at a time and detained, police said. After the officers smelled marijuana coming from the car, they conducted a probable cause search, police said.
Officers located a C02-powered pistol under the suspect's passenger seat and metal BBs located in the center console in a pill bottle, police said. They also found a broken glass pipe with residue in the driver's side floorboard, police said.
When Delpha asked the driver, wanted on two Oklahoma County burglary warrants, about the meth pipe, he said he quit smoking meth and forgot to take it out of the car, police said.
Thomas Anthony Raymond, 18, of Edmond, was arrested on complaints of possession of a controlled dangerous substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and for the two county burglary warrants. Police said the residue field tested positive for meth.
When Delpha asked the BB gun suspect what happened with it, he said the most he ever does with it is twirl it around on his finger and play with it, police said. The suspect said he had it out the window and was twirling it around, but did not point it at anyone, police said.
Police said the original calling party said he was in roughly the 1100 block of N. Santa Fe headed south when the suspects in the red Toyota were attempting to change lanes.
After he did not yield, the Toyota passed the calling party, police said. The occupants "flipped him off" and that is when he saw a passenger pull out a gun and hold it outside the car for him to see, police said. The calling party said he believed that to be a "scare tactic," an attempt to intimidate him.
James Mitchell Ray, 19, of Edmond, was arrested for violating the city's airsoft/BB gun/replica gun ordinance. Ray had not yet been processed at the county jail.
Raymond was booked into the county jail. His bond was set at $375.
Ray had not yet been processed at the county jail.
City law prohibits any person drawing, exhibiting or brandishing a toy gun, air gun, replica firearm, air rifle, pellet or BB gun regardless of whether it contains the colored markings, when such action causes another to reasonably believe it is an operable firearm.
City law prohibits any person possessing a toy gun, air soft gun or replica firearm unless the item either contains a blaze orange plug permanently affixed to the muzzle end of the barrel; has a blaze orange marking permanently affixed to the barrel; is entirely transparent; or is entirely white, bright red, bright orange, bright yellow, bright green, bright blue, bright pink or bright purple.
The law applies regardless of whether the lack of compliance is because the manufacturer failed to make the gun according to these requirements, or the toy was later modified.
Violation of the law is a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine up to $500, up to 60 days in jail, or both.
It is not illegal for children to have toy guns within city limits.
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