HIGH POINT – A High Point man has been arrested and charged in multiple cases, including one involving a gunshot and another involving a couple being threatened with a gun, police said.
For more than a month, a detective has been investigating incidents involving a person displaying a weapon, High Point police said.
During the course of the investigation, detectives identified the man as Jesse Johnson, 42. On Wednesday, detectives arrested Johnson at an apartment complex in the 100 block of Woodvalley Court. Police said he had a concealed firearm with him at the time of his arrest.
Detectives obtained a search warrant for the apartment and seized an additional firearm, bulletproof vests with gun plates, approximately 20 grams of an unknown substance, marijuana and more than $1,900 in cash, police said.
Detectives charged Johnson with carrying a concealed weapon, possession with intent to sell and distribute a Schedule II controlled substance, possession of a Schedule VI controlled substance and possession of a firearm by a felon.
Johnson was also charged in two unrelated cases.
On Oct. 15, police received a report that a man fired a shot into the air at a gas station in the 2700 block of N. Main Street around 4:40 p.m. and then drove away, police said. No one was injured. Detectives identified the man as Johnson. His charges in that case are possession of a firearm by a felon, armed conduct to terrorize the public and discharging a firearm within city limits.
During the investigation of that case, investigators recognized Johnson’s vehicle as a vehicle that matched one reported on September 6 in which a man said he was driving on Skeet Club Road when a vehicle passed him and cut him off. The man told police he pointed at the driver to signal him to slow down, and when the vehicles stopped at the intersection of Skeet Club Road and Johnson Street, the other driver got out of his vehicle and pulled out a semi-automatic gun out and aimed at it. against the man and his wife, police said. No shots were fired and no one was injured.
In that case, Johnson was charged with assault by pointing a gun and going armed to terrorize the public.
He was being held at the Guilford County Jail in High Point. His bond was set at $500,000.
Johnson was convicted of drug possession several times between 2011 and 2015, but has no convictions since, according to the N.C. Department of Adult Correction.
