MONROE, N.C. — A violent convicted felon tried to get away from police officers and hide a backpack that contained a sawed-off shotgun and drug paraphernalia, investigators with the Monroe Police Department said.
Officers were checking into a suspicious person at about 3:35 a.m. Thursday in the 420 block of Morgan Mill Road.
The suspect ran and tried to hide a backpack in the woods.
Officers caught Skylar Larrell Horton, 38, of Monroe, and found the backpack, which had, inside, a loaded 12-gauge sawed-off shotgun, a bong, a scale and a glass crackpipe, Monroe police said.
Horton was booked into the Union County Detention Center.
He is charged with carrying a concealed gun, possessing a weapon of mass destruction, possession of a firearm by felon, possession of drug paraphernalia and resisting officers.
His conditions of release have not been set.
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