{"id":149618,"date":"2026-08-20T20:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T20:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/149618\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T20:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T20:50:11","slug":"warsaw-police-believe-seized-guns-related-to-recent-shootings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/149618\/","title":{"rendered":"Warsaw police believe seized guns related to recent shootings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">The above video is our WITN+ livestream and may not reflect the content in this story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">WARSAW, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; Warsaw police have arrested four men and seized five guns they believe are related to a series of shootings in Duplin County. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police stopped a vehicle Monday night and found the five guns inside. Those were two Glock handguns, two Draco-style firearms, and one AR-style rifle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Chief Darius Bentley says the Glocks were both equipped with automatic switches. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Je\u2019avion Newkirk, Dyan Owens, Kamari Sloan, and Nolan Smith are facing multiple firearm charges, including felony possession of weapons of mass destruction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Earlier this summer, authorities said there had been at least a dozen shootings in both Duplin and Sampson counties. In June, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.witn.com\/2026\/06\/08\/rewards-offered-information-leading-arrests-duplin-county-shooting-investigations\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.witn.com\/2026\/06\/08\/rewards-offered-information-leading-arrests-duplin-county-shooting-investigations\/\">the ATF offered a $5,000 reward for information in the case.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Newkirk, Owens, Sloan, and Smith are being held without bond, police say.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The above video is our WITN+ livestream and may not reflect the content in this story. WARSAW, N.C.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[95],"tags":[49505,182,27767,38211,181],"class_list":["post-149618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-warsaw","tag-guns","tag-poland","tag-seized","tag-shootings","tag-warsaw"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117129814189322932","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}