Jemil Jackson, 24, of 717 Market St., has been charged with illegal possession of a firearm after city police seized a handgun with an obliterated serial number on it while executing a search warrant at his residence on May 13, according to an affidavit. The court document stated that the search warrant was “in relation to a shooting,” but no other specific details as to when and where the shooting occurred were not provided. Following his arraignment last week before Biichle, Jackson was jailed in lieu of $50,000 bail.

In another case, while a state parole officer was conducting a routine house check on James Edward Willits at the 45-year-old parolee’s city home at 1538 Louisa St. on April 14, Willits “pointed to a room on the third floor and told the officer that there were things in that room that would probably get him arrested,” according to an affidavit. Upon entering the room, the officer saw several gun cases that Willits admitted contained rifles owned by his father, the court document stated.

As a convicted felon (burglary), Willits is prohibited from being in possession of any firearms. Within hours, city police executed a search warrant and the house, seizing three rifles. Arraigned before District Judge Kirsten Gardner on felony charges of convicted felon not to possess a firearm, Willits has since waived his preliminary hearing and remains incarcerated in lieu of $50,000 bail.