An Atlantic City man was arrested for allegedly firing shots earlier this month.
Kenneth Marlow, 22, holed himself up in a Tennessee Avenue apartment building Wednesday, after ditching a bag with a gun when police tried to arrest him, Sgt. Paul Aristizabal said.
Marlow is accused in a Nov. 5 shots-fired incident.
Video surveillance shows him firing a handgun, according to the investigation.
Detectives Alberto Valles, Christian Ivanov, Christopher Dodson and Eric Evans were patrolling South Carolina and Baltic avenues Wednesday, when they recognized Marlow, Aristizabal said.
As the detectives approached, Marlow ran west through an empty lot toward North Tennessee Avenue, according to the report.
They saw him discard a satchel before running into a building in the 100 block of North Tennessee Avenue.
He refused to exit, Aristizabal said.
The Emergency Response Team responded.
Crisis negotiators were able to contact him via cell phone. After about an hour and a half, he exited and was arrested without incident, Aristizabal said.
The satchel allegedly had a loaded 9mm “ghost gun,” called that due to no serial number for tracing.
He is now jailed on charges of unlawful possession of a weapon, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, possession of a ghost gun, resisting arrest, obstruction and certain persons not to possess weapons for his criminal history which includes a plea to rioting from 2020. He received five years’ probation in that case, court records show. As part of the plea, a drug charge was dropped.
