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City Man Charged After Swordplay In Brooklyn Square

A Jamestown man faces several charges after allegedly hitting one person with a fencing sword in Brooklyn Square.

City police responded to Brooklyn Square at 3:47 p.m. Thursday for a reported person with a weapon. Officers say they found Lewis P. Campbell Jr., 45, of Jamestown, with a fencing sword. Campbell had allegedly hit one individual with the sword and menaced several other individuals with the sword in the presence of a child.

Campbell was taken to the city jail, where police report finding a small quantity of a crack cocaine/fentanyl mixture.

Campbell was charged with third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, second-degree menacing, endangering the welfare of a child and seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance. Campbell was held in the city jail until he could be arraigned.

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