Thursday, July 28, 2016
Staff report
GIRARD
A city man was arraigned Wednesday in Girard Municipal Court after police said he fired a weapon that sent bullets through the wall of his home and struck the house next door Tuesday.
Elmer Gordon, 35, faces charges of discharging a weapon into a home and using weapons while intoxicated.
Police responded to reports of shots fired just before 9 p.m. and found Gordon standing in a front yard “holding a bottle of booze, with his hands raised above his head,” a police report states.
Officers found bullet exit holes in the wall of a home at 367 Iowa Ave., the address listed for Gordon, as well as bullet holes in the wall of a neighboring home at 371 Iowa. Officers reported two people inside that home were unharmed.
Police entered Gordon’s home and found an AK-47, along with shell casings consistent with the rifle.
Also in Gordon’s home, officers saw an open gun safe, containing ammunition, handguns, pellet rifles, knives, throwing stars, brass knuckles and archery equipment. The police posted photographs of some of the weapons on the department Facebook page.
A police report says Gordon’s home had a room with “equipment consistent with a marijuana-growing operation.” Capt. John Norman said Wednesday police do not plan to file drug-related charges against Gordon because officers did not find sufficient evidence on the scene. Police did not observe any growing marijuana, Norman said.
Officers booked Gordon into the Trumbull County Jail. He will appear for a preliminary hearing Aug. 3 in Girard Municipal Court.