LONG POND – A convicted drug felon from Blakeslee was arrested on charges possessing a firearm.  Police discovered the stolen 9mm Uzi pistol when responding to Gianluca Tosca’s Kuhenbeaker Road residence to serve a protection order and to retrieve a firearm. 

Tosca, 43, was arraigned on charges of receiving stolen property, and prohibited possession of a firearm by a felon. 

The gun was reported stolen in North Carolina in 2002.