DALTON, Ga. — A Dalton man was arrested Tuesday on a number of weapons- and drug-related charges after police say they found he had set up a “shooting range” behind his house on James Street.

According to a Dalton Police Department incident report, police were called to the area of Burchfield Avenue and James Street around 10:19 a.m. on a report of shots fired. The person who made the call said the shooting had been going on for about two hours and he’d seen two bullets strike a tree in his front yard on Burchfield Avenue. He pointed out the house where he believed the shots were coming from on James Street. The report said officers heard about 10 more gunshots being fired while speaking to the man.

They searched the area and approached the house that appeared to be the one the man had pointed out at 1136 James St., seeing a “subject” on the back porch, but failed to make contact. They found multiple shell casings in the back yard.

“The shell casings appeared to be fresh and unweathered,” the report states. The report says there was also a shell casing on the front porch.

“Movement could be seen inside the residence due to moving curtains and footsteps,” the report said.

The report says there was danger to the neighborhood, including Roan School, and officers believed they had enough probable cause to get a search warrant.

While officers were drafting a warrant, a male, identified as Luis Salvador De La Torre-Cabrera, 19, left the front of the house and was detained. An officer then went to Magistrate Court and obtained the search warrant.

When officers searched the home, they found two rifles, a shotgun and a handgun in a crawlspace/attic. They also found a small amount of marijuana, a digital scale and a glass smoking pipe there, according to the report.

In back of the residence they found what the report describes as a “shooting range,” with concrete blocks set up as a backstop and “several model cars which appeared to have been shot.”

The report says De La Torre-Cabrera initially told officers he did not know why the officers were there. The report says he became “increasingly nervous,” sweating and breathing heavily.

De La Torre-Cabrera admitted that he sometimes shot guns. When asked if he’d been shooting guns that day, he said he had not. But when asked if his hands were tested for gunpowder residue would there be any, he said there would be, the report says. He then said he wasn’t “hurting anybody,” he was “just in the back yard shooting a .22 Ruger.”

The report says De La Torre-Cabrera was asked who the marijuana belonged to and he said he did not know. Asked if he were drug tested would he test positive, the report says De La Torre-Cabrera said he would and that the marijuana was his.

De La Torre-Cabrera was still in the Whitfield County jail Wednesday afternoon. He faces charges of discharging a firearm on or near a public highway or street, reckless conduct, possession of a firearm or knife during the commission of a felony, probation violation, possession of less than an ounce of marijuana and possession and use of drug-related objects.