UPDATE: Prosecutors dismissed the charges against Verdell Mays, Jr. on Sept. 12, 2025.

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GRANDVIEW, Mo. (KCTV) - Law enforcement officials seized a firearm from a man who wasn’t supposed to have it in the first place after a short chase on I-49 over the weekend.

The Cass County, Missouri, Sheriff’s Office says that just before 10 a.m. on Saturday, June 28, law enforcement officials spotted a stolen vehicle headed north on I-49 in Belton.

When law enforcement officials attempted to stop the driver, later identified as Verdell Mays Jr., 29, he initially sped off. However, moments later, he pulled the vehicle over in Grandview.

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Investigators noted that after Mays was taken into

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