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Port Hope man charged after police find multiple firearms ‘laying around’ apartment residence

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A Port Hope, Ont., man faces more than a dozen firearms-related charges following a search of an apartment residence on Wednesday.

According to the Port Hope Police Service, police received information that a man had allegedly threatened an apartment superintendent over an eviction dispute.

Police investigated, which led to a search warrant being executed at the man’s apartment residence on Wednesday afternoon. Police say the suspect was seen leaving his residence and was quickly arrested without incident.

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Inside the apartment, police say investigators found “multiple” restricted and non-restricted firearms “laying around the apartment.”

Police said that while the man was authorized to have most of the firearms, none of them were properly secured.

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James Bryan, 30, of Port Hope, was charged with 13 counts of careless storage of a firearm, two counts of unauthorized possession of a weapon (brass knuckles and an expandable baton) and uttering threats to cause bodily harm.

He was released on an undertaking and will appear in court in Cobourg on March 31.

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