Stolen Firearms Recovered In Rome

A 35-year-old Rome, Georgia man stands accused of possessing eleven stolen rifles and shotguns.

According to Floyd County Jail records: Paden Elliott Brownlow claimed he purchased the firearms for $1,300.  Several of the guns still had the price tags on them.  The price of one of those firearms was more than Brownlow claimed to have paid for all of them.

During the execution of a search warrant served at Brownlow’s Huffaker Road residence, officers found a total of 30 firearms, three of which did not have a displayed identification number, and one of the firearms was a sawed-off shotgun.

Suspected methamphetamine was also recovered.

Brownlow is charged with 11 counts of theft by receiving stolen property, 11 counts of theft by bringing stolen property into the state, also with 30 counts of possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime, three counts of possessing a firearm with an altered identification mark, and also with single counts of possession of a sawed-off shotgun – and Unlawful possession of methamphetamine.

(WRGA Radio of Rome, Georgia)