FAYETTEVILLE — Police arrested Emmitt Cosen, 26, late Thursday night in connection with firing shots from a car on Dickson Street.
Witnesses told police Cosen got into a fight Thursday afternoon inside JJ’s Grill, 324 W. Dickson St., and was asked to leave, according to a preliminary police report.
He returned a short time later and employees told him he wasn’t allowed to enter the restaurant. He got into a white Mercedes and fired shots into the air while driving past the restaurant about 5:45 p.m., according to the report.
Police arrested him for discharging a firearm from a moving vehicle and possession of firearms by a certain person.
No one was injured by the shots, Sgt. Anthony Murphy said.
Cosen was out on bond pending a trial next month.
He was arrested April 10 in connection with aggravated assault on a family or household member, false imprisonment, terroristic threatening and a drug-related felony charge.
He attacked a woman who was three months pregnant with his child, beat her, tied her down and forced her to swallow Xanax pills, according to a preliminary police report.
Cosen also was arrested in March for two counts of delivery of a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance with purpose to deliver, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of a firearm by certain persons.
Cosen had been under surveillance after he sold marijuana to a confidential informant working with the 4th Judicial District Drug Task Force over the span of a few months, according to police. Police found 16 pounds of marijuana in a storage unit Cosen had rented, according to an arrest report.
Cosen had yet to be booked into the Washington County Detention Center as of 6 p.m. Friday.
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