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The Providence Journal
PROVIDENCE After a week of violence in the city, police on heightened alert arrested two men on Friday night on charges of illegal possession of firearms.
In one case, police arrested Bryant Sanchez, 31, of Providence, after Patrolman Guillermo Vargas was flagged down on Cranston Street by an unnamed individual reporting that someone in a white Jeep Compass with Michigan registration had just pointed a firearm at him.
Moments later, Vargas spotted the white Jeep turn left onto Cranston Street from Hanover Street without using a turn signal.
He caught up with the vehicle turning into the driveway of 18 Kenwood St., and placed Sanchez in handcuffs. Sanchez told a second officer he had discarded the firearm a short distance away, the police said.