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Two indicted in gun thefts
Claxton man implicated in Kemp's Pharmacy incident
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Two men involved in last summer's theft of firearms from Kemp Pharmacy in Claxton were indicted in a six-count indictment returned by the federal grand jury this week, charging each defendant with trafficking firearms stolen from a federal firearms licensee. Jordy Melvin of Claxton was arraigned on Jan. 13 and Wayne Evans of New York City was arraigned Tuesday in federal court in Statesboro before U.S. Magistrate Judge G.R. Smith. The indictment charges that in June 2010, the defendants conspired to break into Kemp's Pharmacy, a Federal Firearms Licensee in Evans County, in order to steal guns to transport to New York City for illegal resale on the streets, said First Assistant U.S. Attorney James Durham.
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