A 41-year-old Massey Drive man has been arrested for careless storage of a firearm. Tuesday morning around 10:30 a.m., the RNC responded to a report of a firearm in the Gull Pond Road area near Pinchgut Lake. Officers with the Resource Enforcement Division also went to the scene, ,where an unoccupied off-road vehicle was located on a public trail near the Trans-Canada Highway. The off-road vehicle was found to be transporting a firearm that was improperly stored and in plain view. The owner was identified and later arrested, the firearm was seized and the man is due in court at a later date. The investigation is ongoing with more charges possible.
