Salina Post

SALINA — Police arrested two men over the weekend and reportedly recovered two more guns taken in the mid-April burglary of Cleve’s Marine and Sporting Goods.

On Friday night, a police officer recognized a Salina man wanted on outstanding warrants walking with a woman in the area of Elm and Columbia about 9:35 p.m. The officer told Jason McCarty, 36, to stop, but he kept walking and finally stopped in the 900 block of E. Elm, reached into the waistband of his pants, then swung his arm upward.

Officers later reported finding a .45-caliber semi-automatic handgun in the backyard of 901 E. Elm. The gun was one of the guns stolen from Cleve’s.

In addition to the outstanding warrants, McCarty was jailed on suspicion of criminal possession of a firearm by a felon, possession of stolen property, criminal use of a weapon and felony obstruction.

Then, just before 7 a.m. Saturday morning, Jacky McConnell, 35, was arrested just as the Salina S.R.T team was going to execute a search warrant at his home in the 200 block of S. 11th, looking for guns and drugs.

During the search officers, recovered a .38-caliber handgun taken from Cleve’s, a couple of other handguns not believed to be connected to the burglary of Cleve’s, and 43-grams of methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia.

McConnell was booked into jail on suspicion of possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of stolen property.