A Knox County man was arrested Thursday for trying to pawn stolen guns in Williamsburg.
Williamsburg Police charged 33-year-old Jason Graves of Gray with four counts of receiving stolen firearms and four counts of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. He was also served with a Knox County warrant for similar charges.
Police say the arrest was largely possible thanks to a city ordinance requiring pawn shops to upload their transactions in an online database.
Graves apparently brought four guns into the pawnshop Thursday morning, and went back that afternoon with four more. The guns recovered that morning had been reported stolen recently from Bell County. Police believe the other four firearms were also stolen, but so far, haven’t been reported.