LINDEN -- Police responding to a report of a suspicious person taking photographs of an oil tank field found a Texan toting a .12 gauge shotgun, authorities said.

Keith Kinnunen, 39, of River Oaks, Texas, was charged with unlawful possession of a weapon, and ws being held Tuesday at the Union County jail in Elizabeth on $20,000 bail, police Capt. James Sarnicki said.

At 4:26 p.m. Monday, police received a report of a man on a bicycle on Lower Road, near the city Department of Public Works garage, Sarnicki said. He said the man was inquiring about taking photographs of the nearby Phillips 66 refinery.

Officers spoke to the man, who identified himself and said he was traveling from Texas and taking photographs of interesting sites, the captain said. He said Kinnunen told police he is currently homeless.

Officers discovered Kinnunen had a Mossberg .12 gauge shotgun and rounds wrapped in plastic, and found an arrest warrants for him out of Oklahoma for felony aggravated assault, Sarnicki said.

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