ASHEVILLE, N.C. (828newsNOW) — Asheville police say a suspect accused of breaking into a business on Patton Avenue has been taken into custody.
A release from the Asheville Police Department (APD) said officers responded to a business on Patton Avenue around 6:37 a.m. on July 15 to investigate a breaking and entering. When they arrived at the business, they saw a person fleeing the scene on foot.
The suspect, identified as 35-year-old Troy Dean Serna, is accused of discarding several stolen items onto the sidewalk and a stolen firearm into a trashcan while trying to evade officers.
He was taken into custody shortly afterward and charged with possessing a stolen firearm, possession of firearm by a felon, breaking and entering and resisting a public officer.
Serna was booked into the Buncombe County Detention Facility under a $50,000 bond.
If you have any information regarding this incident, you’re asked to contact APD at (828) 252-1110. You can also send an anonymous tip using the TIP2APD smartphone application (search “Asheville PD” in your app store) or by texting TIP2APD to 847411.