A Des Moines man was arrested and charged from an alleged 2020 incident when he lived in Jefferson.

According to court documents, a Jefferson Police Officer responded to a call from a resident in the 300 block of West Washington Street at 7:41pm on January 24, 2020 that claimed 56-year-old Robert Barnard had marijuana and a firearm in his bedroom. The officer found the items and confiscated them. During the investigation, the officer found out Barnard had a prior felony conviction in 2008. 

Barnard told the officer he was holding onto the marijuana and the firearm in his bedroom for a friend. An arrest warrant was issued later that year and when Barnard came into the Greene County Jail this past Friday to serve an unrelated jail sentence for an incident that happened in January of 2020, he was then arrested on the outstanding warrant from the January 24th incident and charged with a Class D Felony for dominion/control of a firearm/offensive weapon by a felon, a serious misdemeanor for his first offense for possession of marijuana and a simple misdemeanor for possession of drug paraphernalia. 

Barnard was booked and has been released from the Greene County Jail. Raccoon Valley Radio will bring you more information as it becomes official.