A Pleasantville man charged with gun possession in Atlantic City while on pretrial release in a gun case will stay jailed.
The gun matched one used in a Jan. 28 shooting in Stanley Holmes Village, Chief Assistant Prosecutor Allison Eiselen said.
Young was in jail on an earlier gun charge at the time of that incident, so he could not have been involved, she said.
Eiselen did not detail that shooting. Atlantic City police announced a shooting on that same date that wounded three people, but it was not in the area of Stanley Holmes.
Young was in the Atlantic County Justice Facility at that time, after he and a group of juveniles were arrested in September in a Hard Rock Hotel and Casino room, where three guns were found, according to those charges.
Young was released March 4, after tests showed his DNA was not on any of the guns, Eiselen said.
Defense attorney Durann Neil argued that his client has no criminal history and that the charges pending from September likely will be dismissed in light of the DNA evidence.
He asked that Young be released to live with his grandparents so that he can attend Pennco Tech, where he has been accepted for the fall.
Superior Court Judge Pam D'Arcy was concerned that, in the latest arrest, Young ran from police and threw the gun he was carrying, she said.
He also is accused of having cocaine packaged for sale on him at the time.
That makes him a danger to the community and "shows his propensity for committing crimes while armed," she said.
Young will remain in the Atlantic County jail.
