Homeless man arrested in Jamestown for suspicion of possessing firearm while prohibited

JAMESTOWN — A 61-year-old homeless man was arrested Thursday, Oct. 15, on suspicion of possessing a firearm while prohibited, according to Maj. Justin Blinsky with the Jamestown Police Department. Milton Theodore Stoppleworth is in the Stutsman County Correctional Center on a formal charge of prohibited/possess firearm, a Class C felony. Stoppleworth made his initial appearance on Friday, Oct. 16, in Southeast District Court in Jamestown where bail was set at $2,500 cash or a $10,000 surety bond with additional conditions. The Jamestown Police Department responded to a licensed liquor establishment in southeast Jamestown at 3:36 p.m. Thursday to a report of a firearm being found by an employee inside a bar. Blinsky said Jamestown police officers recovered a handgun and other personal belongings left behind by a male patron and began an investigation into the abandoned items. He said police officers identified Stoppleworth, who is homeless and had left the area, as the ma