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 Wilmington Police have arrested an adult and juvenile on gun and drug charges.

On April 4 at approximately 9:07 p.m. members of the Safe Streets Task Force made contact with a suspicious vehicle in the 500 block of West 24^th Street.  Upon making contact with the occupants officers detected a strong odor of marijuana.  Police took 36-year-old Daniel Evans and a 14-year-old male into custody.

Police recovered a semi-automatic 9mm rifle, a .45 caliber Long Colt handgun and 36 grams of marijuana.

Evans was charged with the following offenses:

• Possession of a Firearm by a Person Prohibited (2 counts)
• Possession of a Firearm or Ammunition by a Person Prohibited
• Carrying a Concealed Deadly Weapon
• Possession of a Firearm by a Person who is also in Possession of a Controlled Substance
• Possession of a Controlled Substance

He was arraigned in Justice of the Peace Court 11 and committed to the Howard R. Young Correctional Institution on $31,100 secured bail.

The 14-year-old was charged with the following offenses:

• Possession of a Firearm by a Person Prohibited
• Carrying a Concealed Deadly Weapon
• Possession of a Firearm by a Person who is also in Possession of a Controlled Substance
• Possession of a Controlled Substance
• Resisting Arrest

He was arraigned in Justice of the Peace Court 11 and released on $6,100 unsecured bail.