A Wildwood teenager was arrested with a loaded 9mm gun in the front pocket of his shorts.
Ernest Bernard Cooper III, 18, had been walking at about 4:30 p.m. New Year’s Day in the area of Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue and Kilgore Street, a “high crime area” known for drug sales, according to an arrest report from the Wildwood Police Department. As Cooper was walking an officer noticed “the distinct imprint of a handgun protruding through the thin shorts” which Cooper was wearing.
A pat down confirmed that Cooper was armed with a 9mm Taurus handgun. He was also carrying $70 in cash.
Cooper was arrested on a felony charge of carrying a concealed handgun.