For Immediate Release: 5/10/2023 11:40 am
On May 9th 2023, officers assigned to the Neighborhood Response Team were on patrol in the area of May St. At about 7 PM, officers observed a black Audi cross over the double yellow line, causing two vehicles traveling in the opposite direction to take action to avoid a collision. Officers activated their blue lights and pulled over the vehicle, which had Dealer license plates out of Georgia. An occupant of the vehicle, forty-three-year-old Davien Watson of Russell St, had an outstanding arrest warrant and was placed under arrest.
While police were attempting to verify that the driver, identified as thirty-eight-year-old Ryan Davidson of Edgewood Lane, had an active license, he sprinted away from the vehicle into backyards on Maple Tree Lane. Officers ran after him and eventually located him in a residential backyard. They placed him under arrest and located a bag of what appeared to be fentanyl in his pocket.
Officers located two handguns in the vehicle and a silencer. Mr. Davidson did not have an active driver’s license or an active license to carry firearms. He is charged with two counts of Carrying a Firearm without a License, two counts of Carrying a Loaded Firearm without a License, two counts of Improper Storage of a Firearm, Possession of a Firearm Silencer, Possession of a Class A Substance, Armed Career Criminal Level 3, Possession of Ammunition without an FID Card, Disorderly Conduct, Resisting Arrest, Unlicensed Operation of a Motor Vehicle, Illegally Attaching Plates, Operating an Unregistered Vehicle, Operating an Uninsured Vehicle, and a Marked Lanes Violation.
