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Several police officers on Second Street shortly after the arrest of Treyshawn Logan. PHILIP HOLMES/Sun-Gazette

Minutes after a disturbance broke out involving a possible handgun Friday morning on a porch in the 800 block of West Third Street in Williamsport, Treyshawn Logan, 19, was arrested about a block from Second Street, Williamsport police said.

Although a handgun was never seen, it was alleged that Logan was reaching for one in a backpack during a verbal confrontation he had with others on the porch around 10:40 a.m. , an officer wrote in an affidavit.

“Treyshan Logan became very irritated and started trying to fight. He had a backpack behind him. » that a woman on the porch could see, the officer said in the court document.

Wife “feared for his life knowing that Treyshawn regularly carries a gun”, the affidavit states.

Logan reached into the backpack “with a movement comparable to that of a gun, but he was pulled away by his father before exposing a weapon”, the officer said in the court document.

While en route to the scene, police were informed that the suspect (Logan) was running east on West Third Street,” the affidavit states.

Shortly after Logan's arrest, police began searching for the backpack he was believed to have with him on the porch, the court document states.

The backpack was found in a trash can at 747 Second St., Williamsport, not far from where Logan, of 941 Penn St., was arrested, police said. Inside the backpack was a handgun, police said, adding that they believed the gun and backpack belonged to Logan.

Following his appearance before District Judge William Solomon on charges of carrying a firearm without a license, simple assault and disorderly conduct, Logan was booked into the Lycoming County Jail in lieu of $50 bail. 000 $.