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Woodland man arrested after allegedly firing illegal gun

Joshua Adams, 35, allegedly shot at someone with sawed-off shotgun

By , Columbian Social Services, Demographics, Faith
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Four people were arrested Thursday morning after a disturbance at a rural home east of Woodland, where a man allegedly fired an illegal shotgun in an attempt to get someone to leave the property.

Around 6:30 a.m. Cowlitz County sheriff’s deputies and officers from Woodland and Kalama went to 134 Oxbow Road after neighbors reported hearing several shots fired.

Police stopped a vehicle leaving the area, and the occupants said there was an altercation between Joshua Adams, 35, who lives at the house, and David Fairbanks, 25.

There were several people in the house when police arrived. Four people were arrested on outstanding warrants unrelated to the call, including Adams. Deputies learned that Adams had got into an argument with Fairbanks at the house and discharged several rounds with an illegal 20-gauge sawed-off shotgun in an attempt to get Fairbanks out of the house, the sheriff’s office said.

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Nobody was injured by the firearm, which was found by police. The pair knew each other, and Fairbanks had been staying at the house for a while.

Adams was arrested and booked into the Cowlitz County Jail on suspicion of unlawful possession of a firearm, possession of an unlawful firearm and reckless endangerment, along with the outstanding warrants.

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