After he was forced to move out of his city home at 1151 Market St., Williamport, because his wife had filed a protection from abuse order against him, convicted felon Malik Poleto left behind a box inside the house, according to an affidavit filed by a detective with the county’s Narcotics Enforcement Unit.

On Jan. 30, his wife alerted law enforcement after she discovered the box hidden in a closet and found two rifles and a shotgun inside the box, the detective said. The woman suspected Poleto kept guns in the house and “she thought he was not allowed to possess them,,” it was stated in an affidavit.

Poleto was taken into custody later that day and arraigned before Biichle on three felony counts of convicted felon not to possess a firearm. He remains jailed in lieu of $75,000 bail.