A Bluff City man was arrested on theft charges after allegedly trying to return stolen property to the wrong owner.
Eric Gully, 40, P.O. Box 18, Bluff City, has been charged with theft by receiving and illegal possession of a firearm.
According to court records on file with the Nevada County Circuit Clerk’s office, a Prescott resident was contacted by another man who asked if the resident had had a gun stolen from his home. The resident reportedly told the man that he had. The man then said that Gully had taken the gun and that he now wanted to return it and reportedly handed the resident a handgun.
The resident took the gun immediately to the Prescott Police Department, according to the report, and said that the gun was not his.
The gun had actually been stolen from another Prescott resident on Feb. 14.
According to an affidavit on file by PPD Detective David Thomason, police tracked the gun back through several people until one man said that Gully “had brought it to him late one night about two or three weeks prior.” That man told police that Gully “had also given him a bottle of Hollister cologne around the same time.” According to the police report, the cologne had been taken from another Prescott residence.
Court records indicate that Gully was arrested on March 16.
Gully was convicted of breaking and entering and theft of property in 2008, according to court records. This means that Gully was a felon when he had the stolen gun in his possession, apparently prompting a second charge, illegal possession of a firearm.
Gully is being represented by Little Rock attorney Ronald Davis Jr. who has filed a series of five motions, including a request for a witness list. That motion indicates that there are many people involved in the police investigation and that for Davis to question each of them would take an excessive amount of time.
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