Cops: Freeport man arrested on gun charge
Freeport Police officers arrested a Freeport man for criminal possession of a weapon at 2:30 a.m. Saturday, Nassau detectives said.
Police said that officers, responding to a report of a man with a gun, watched Lawrence Brown, 45, crouch next to a motor home on South Ocean Avenue and walk away.
They stopped him and found a .22 caliber revolver next to the mobile home's rear wheel, police said.
Brown is scheduled to be arraigned Sunday in First District Court in Hempstead.
'His sacrifice made a difference': Gold Star mother honors son's memory Army Pfc. Raheen Tyson Heighter, 22, of Bay Shore, was the first serviceman from Long Island killed in the Iraq War.
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