College basketball player Jeremiah Davenport arrested in New York for possession of a loaded gun

A college basketball player in town for the NBA draft was arrested early Saturday in Washington Heights after police found a loaded gun in a car he was in, police sources 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, authorities said.

Jeremiah Davenport, 25, a graduating senior guard for the University of Arkansas Razorbacks, and another man, 24, were in the car, police sources said.

As police conducted a traffic stop on the car, they observed marijuana smoke coming from the vehicle, officers said.

Davenport was unable to produce any identification when asked by police, who saw a gun in plain view behind the passenger seat, officers said.

Both men were arrested, although the second was released after the Manhattan district attorney's office declined to prosecute him, police sources said.

Davenport was charged with criminal possession of a loaded firearm, unlawful possession of an ammunition feeding device and tinted windows, cops said.

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

His lawyer, Russel Novack, told Judge Marva Brown that there were “serious research problems” in the case.

Davenport was released on his own recognizance.

Davenport, who has no previous convictions, declined to comment as he left court.

The Razorbacks guard was previously arrested on a misdemeanor charge in September for a speeding ticket after turning himself in to Fayetteville police, according to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.