VALDOSTA — Reports of gunfire, a chase and a cell phone’s screensaver made things interesting for Valdosta police Wednesday, according to reports.
Police investigated reports of several “suspicious” males in the Hudson Dockett housing complex discharging a firearm on South Fry Street around 7:05 p.m., according to reports. Officers saw one man running west and pursued, say reports.
A suspect was found behind a house in the 800 block of Hudson Street, and an officer shouted for him to “show me your hands,” but the subject would not move his hands from underneath his body near his waistband, according to reports.
“After several knee strikes administered to the suspect” by an officer, “the suspect finally extended his hands to the side of his body, showing that he did not have a weapon,” say reports.
The subject was searched, and during the search a cell phone fell from his coat, at which time the subject yelled “Get my (expletive) phone,” according to reports. A police officer who picked up the phone noticed a picture of a silver, pearl-handled revolver on the phone’s screensaver, the same weapon found on the scene by other officers, reports say.
The suspect was identified as Arthur Lee Brown, 19, of Valdosta, and he was charged with obstructing a law enforcement officer, altering I.D. on a weapon, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and discharging a firearm near a highway, say reports.
He was taken to the Lowndes County Jail, according to reports.
A female juvenile was also arrested, charged with obstruction of an officer, according to reports.
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