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NANTICOKE &mdash; State police on Tuesday filed firearm offenses against a Wilkes-Barre man who is jailed without bail on charges he attempted to kill a woman and her stepson outside a strip club in Plymouth Township earlier this year.
				James A. Bush, 35, was hit with two counts of illegal possession of a firearm and a single count of receiving stolen property after investigators allegedly found two handguns inside his Birch Street home.
				Investigators searched Bush&rsquo;s residence after he allegedly discharged a firearm into a vehicle nearly striking Tashia Vendetta Cato, 41, and Dyheem Tremon Simmons, 22, both of Plymouth, outside the Elite Club 4 Play Gentlemen&rsquo;s Club on Route 11 on March 8.
				State police allege Bush discharged several rounds into the vehicle.
				Cato drove to Wilkes-Barre General Hospital for facial injuries she sustained by broken glass. Simmons was not injured.
				Cato told investigators, according to court records, she arrived at the gentlemen&rsquo;s club with her stepson and observed Bush inside the club. Cato is known to Bush through her ex-boyfriend having a relationship with Bush&rsquo;s girlfriend, court records say.
				As Cato and Simmons left the club, she claimed a BMW with Bush and two other men pulled up along side her and Bush discharged a firearm striking her vehicle six to eight times, court records say.
				After the shooting, investigators executed a search warrant at Bush&rsquo;s residence allegedly finding a 9mm Luger on a nightstand and a 9mm Jennings inside the nightstand, along with ammunition, according to court records.
				State police said Bush is prohibited from owning, possessing and carrying firearms due to a felony criminal trespass conviction in 2015.
				One of the handguns was stolen during a burglary in Shickshinny, state police said.
				Bush was arraigned Tuesday by District Judge Donald Whittaker in Nanticoke on two counts of illegal possession of a firearm and a single count of receiving stolen property. Bail was set at $250,000 on the firearm offenses.
				Bush remains jailed without bail on attempt to commit criminal homicide, aggravated assault and reckless endangerment charges stemming from the March 8 shooting.

Firearm offenses filed against man charged with attempted homicide