Cellphone pics lead to more charges for Lena man

Melissa Gregory
mgregory@thetowntalk.com, (318) 792-1807

A Lena man charged earlier this month in the thefts of a bulldozer and a trailer is facing another charge after a search of his cellphone, according to a release.

Jordan Levi Guin

Rapides Parish Sheriff's detectives were continuing their investigation after the May 6 arrest of 29-year-old Jordan Levi Guin of the 70 block of Guin Road. He had been charged with trespassing and theft between $750 and $5,000 in connection after he allegedly tried to sell the items to a third party before leaving them at a location on La. Highway 1 South.

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Detectives got a search warrant to examine the contents of Guin's cellphone. "On the extraction report, there were several pictures of a lever-action rifle with a scope," reads the release. "Detectives were contacted by a third party who questioned if any firearms were recovered during Guin’s arrest."

Once detectives got a description of the missing firearm, they found it matched the one in the photos on Guin's cellphone. Detectives used that and other evidence to get another arrest warrant for Guin, who still was in the Rapides Parish Detention Center.

Guin was booked on a theft of a firearm charge. He remains in jail on an additional $10,000 bond for a total bond of $31,250.

The investigation is continuing, states the release.

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