A Jamestown man faces charges after police found unlicensed guns in his vehicle during a traffic stop.

Devan M. Huntington, 30, was charged with two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, third-degree criminal possession of a weapon (large capacity feeding device), third-degree criminal possession of a weapon (possesses three or more firearms) and criminal possession of a firearm after his vehicle was pulled over at 12:13 a.m. Friday by officers of the Jamestown Police Department’s K-9 Unit on Prather Avenue near Prospect Street for several alleged multiple moving violations.

During the course of the investigation it was determined that Huntington was allegedly in possession of two loaded pistols, an unloaded pistol and a large capacity feeding device. Police report Huntington does not have a valid pistol permit and is not allowed to possess the firearms.

Huntington was taken to the Jamestown City Jail until he could be arraigned.

In the first half of 2024, Jamestown police filed 38 criminal possession of a weapon charges, according to data filed with the state Division of Criminal Justice Services. Twenty-four of those charges are felonies, with eight being violent felonies and another six misdemeanor charges.

Weapons law offenses per year, according to the Jamestown Police Department’s annual report released earlier this year, were a recent low of 40 during the COVID-19 pandemic year of 2020 before increasing to 77 in 2021, 111 in 2022 and 107 in 2023. Firearms seized as evidence also decreased to a five-year low in 2020 with 46 seizures. Seizures increased to 50 in 2021, 80 in 2022 and 76 in 2023.

In an unrelated incident, a Jamestown man faces several charges after allegedly hitting one person with a fencing sword in Brooklyn Square.

City police responded to Brooklyn Square at 3:47 p.m. Thursday for a reported person with a weapon. Officers say they found Lewis P. Campbell Jr., 45, of Jamestown, with a fencing sword. Campbell had allegedly hit one individual with the sword and menaced several other individuals with the sword in the presence of a child.

Campbell was taken to the city jail, where police report finding a small quantity of a crack cocaine/fentanyl mixture.

Campbell was charged with third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, second-degree menacing, endangering the welfare of a child and seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance. Campbell was held in the city jail until he could be arraigned.