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A man was arrested this afternoon when he walked down Eureka’s Sixth Street carrying a realistic looking pellet gun in open view.

Brittany Powell, public information officer for the Eureka Police Department, said that she was going into City Hall when she spotted the man, who was carrying what looked to her like a regular, powder-fired weapon. Several drivers on Sixth Street had pulled over and were talking into their phones, presumably dialing 911.

Officers arrived almost immediately after she spotted the man, Powell said, and were able to take him into custody without incident, at which point it turned out that the weapon was air-powered.

The man turned out to be Shannon Lee Stone, whom the EPD has arrested at least twice before on similar charges of brandishing such weaponry in public. (See here and here.)

The first calls on the incident came into the police just before 2 p.m., Powell said. At about the same time, police started getting calls about another armed man walking around the corner of Third and L streets. Officers were unable to locate an armed man at that location, Powell said, and it is currently unclear whether the two calls are related.

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