A 60-year-old homeless man who has lived on the south side of the Iron Avenue Bridge, has moved…..but not very far.

Salina Police Captain Mike Sweeney says that Jimmy Ray Davis was told to move on late Wednesday afternoon, after it appeared he was making the southwest corner of the bridge his home.

 

Davis was also made to return a grocery cart to the Dillion’s store that he had taken without permission from the store and they wanted it back.

Davis has now moved a few yards south of the bridge on the east side of 4th street, with his possessions were in a large stack and a chair next to a guardrail along 4th street on the west bank of the old Smoky Hill River Channel.

All that remained Thursday morning in the area he had been staying were a couple of overflowing trash bags.

Sweeney says the police have received several calls about Davis and only one that complained he was panhandling, but he was not.

Sweeney added that officers have told Davis of available assistance in Salina to help those who have no home, but he has chosen not to seek the assistance.

Sweeney says that while there is nothing illegal about sleeping or staying on public property, it began to appear that Davis was intending to make the area his permanent place to stay, and he was told to move on.