Knoxville Police arrest three people, including a juvenile, who are facing charges after a traffic stop leads to a stolen firearm and drugs being found in a car.
KPD officers pulled over an SUV for a tag light that wasn’t working on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue. Officers say the three people inside the car were acting suspiciously, and a K-9 officer alerted to drugs being inside the car.
Officers say they found four firearms, including a stolen handgun from Union County. Officers also found over 22 grams of suspected crack cocaine and other drug paraphernalia.
30-year-old Tyrone Tumlin, 21-year-old Marquis Twitty and a 17-year-old juvenile were all arrested.
Tumlin was charged with convicted felon in possession of a weapon in addition to schedule II drug offenses, Twitty was charged with theft of a firearm, and the juvenile was charged with prohibited weapon possession and possession of a handgun with an altered serial number.
