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Last updated on Tuesday, October 25, 2016
(COLUMBUS) - A Columbus teenager was arrested Friday on gun and drug charges.
Columbus Lt. Matt Harris says officers arrested 19-year-old Skye Bailey after he was found passed out in a vehicle with a handgun on his lap.
At approximately 1:50 p.m., Officers Ben Quesenbery and Eric Kapczynski responded to a parking lot in the 2000 block of Merchants Mile in regards to two suspicious men in a vehicle.
When the officers arrived they found Bailey inside the vehicle. Officers reportedly took the handgun and arrested Bailey after waking him up.
A second person in the vehicle was taken into custody but later released.
Police found a small amount of meth and Xanax in the vehicle.
Bailey was arrested on preliminary charges of carrying a handgun without a permit, possession of a controlled substance and possession of meth.
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