Dakota F.C. Brown Jr. arrested with stolen handgun during alleged shoplifting

Dakota F.C. Brown Jr., 21, of North Charleston was arrested July 17 after an off-duty North Charleston police officer working security was flagged down about a shoplifting at the Dollar Tree on 5900 Rivers Avenue. During a pat-down officers say they found a handgun concealed in Brown’s front waistband that had been reported stolen by the Summerville Police Department; Brown was charged with unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and shoplifting and taken to the Al Cannon Detention Center.