College Basketball Player Jeremiah Davenport Arrested in New York for Loaded Gun: Sources

A college basketball player in town for the NBA Draft was arrested Saturday morning in Washington Heights after police found a loaded gun in his car, police sources said.

Authorities said shortly after 1:30 a.m. police spotted a black BMW X5 with tinted windows double-parked on the northwest corner of Nagel Avenue and West 204th Street.

In the car were 25-year-old Jeremiah Davenport, a graduate student at the University of Arkansas for the Razorbacks, and another man, 24, who was in the car, police sources said.

According to police, while stopping the car they noticed marijuana smoke coming from the vehicle.

Police reported that Davenport was unable to provide any identification when asked to do so by police, who saw a firearm in plain sight behind the passenger seat.

Both men were arrested, police sources said, although the other was released after the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office declined to prosecute him.

Davenport faces charges including unlawful possession of a loaded firearm, unlawful possession of an ammunition feeding device and window tinting, police said.

He appeared in Manhattan Criminal Court on Saturday wearing a dark orange sweater with the words “selfish ways” written on it.

His court-appointed lawyer, Russell Novack, told Judge Marva Brown that there were “significant problems with the search” in this case.

Davenport was released on his own recognizance.

Davenport, who has no prior convictions, left court and declined to comment.

According to the Arkansas Democratic Gazette, the Razorbacks guard was arrested in September on a misdemeanor speeding ticket charge after he turned himself in to Fayetteville police.