A Jefferson City man has pleaded guilty to a trio of felonies and a misdemeanor related to possession of cocaine, marijuana, drug paraphernalia and a pistol.
Noah Q. Cohen, 23, was charged with two counts of possession of a controlled substance, one count of unlawful use of a weapon and one count unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia.
Cole County Presiding Judge Pat Joyce sentenced Cohen to four years in prison.
The charges stem from the investigation of Jefferson City Police Department officers after they were called to a residence in the 1100 block of Jefferson Street for a report of domestic assault in July 2017.
Upon arrival, officers made contact with a woman who said she and Cohen, her boyfriend, were involved in a verbal altercation, according to the probable cause statement. During the argument, the victim said, Cohen took her cellphone out of her hand by force, at which point she ran to a nearby residence to escape him.
Cohen admitted to taking the phone out of the victim's hand when he was interviewed by officers later, and the phone was in his possession when he was arrested for domestic assault.
Police conducted a search of Cohen's vehicle while he was in custody and recovered narcotics and a firearm from "the immediate area in which (Cohen) was seated."
The marijuana recovered totaled more than 35 grams, according to the felony complaint.
The firearm recovered was a Hi-Point semi-automatic pistol.
Neither document details where or when a scale with drug residue on it was recovered, but that item is the source of the misdemeanor drug paraphernalia charge.
Cohen also pleaded guilty to an amended charge in connection with a drug case from March 2017. Joyce ordered the four-year prison sentence in the first case run concurrent with this case. Cohen pleaded guilty to misdemeanor drug possession.
In the March case, Cohen was seen walking away from a parked car on the lot of the Missouri Department of Revenue Office on Jefferson Street, according to a JCPD probable cause statement.
Cohen was taken into custody because he had an active warrant from Maries County for his arrest.
Officers used a K-9 unit to search Cohen's vehicle, and the dog found a bowl in the back seat containing 13 bags of marijuana weighing nearly 25 grams. Also found were two digital scales and several small bags used to package narcotics for sale. In the trunk of the vehicle officers found a pump-action 12-gauge shotgun with six rounds.