POUGHKEEPSIE – City of Poughkeepsie Police arrested an out-of-state man on Friday for carrying an illegal firearm in the city.
On Friday around 12:43 p.m., City of Poughkeepsie Community Policing officers responded to the area of 11 Boulevard Knolls for a report of a suspicious person walking around the area with a holstered pistol on his side.
The responding officers encountered a man matching the description provided and stopped him. During the encounter, officers discovered and seized a loaded Colt 1911 handgun from the suspect identified as 52-year-old Tony Erhardt of Arizona.
Erhardt was arrested for felony criminal possession of a weapon. Erhardt was arraigned by City of Poughkeepsie Court Judge Volkmann and remanded to Dutchess County Jail.
Anyone with information on this incident is encouraged to contact the City of Poughkeepsie Police Department at 845-451-7577.
