that there was ample circumstantial evidence suggesting that defendant had possession of the gun before he was tackled to the ground by the police officers. The officers testified that a warm, dry chrome-plated handgun was located in the wet grass only six inches from defendant’s hand. A jury could reasonably conclude that, since the grass was wet and the weather cool, the gun, found at the precise spot where the police tackled defendant, likely fell from defendant’s hand or elsewhere from his person. Moreover, the officers testified defendant was reaching for the gun — an indication that defendant was aware of the gun’s presence. Such evidence goes well beyond mere conjecture that defendant had possession of the gun. See State v. Glasco, 160 N.C. App. 150, 157, 585 S.E.2d 257, 262 (<HOLDING>), disc. review denied, 357 N.C. 580, 589 S.E.2d
holding that the fortress theory applied where a firearm and marijuana were found on a night stand and cocaine was found in the same room as defendant had easy access to the firearm holding that evidence was sufficient to prove defendant constructively possessed the gun where although defendant denied ownership of the gun it was found near a knife of which defendant claimed ownership and where defendant was aware of the presence of the gun holding that a defendant exercised control over a firearm that was found in a vehicle he was driving holding that to enhance a sentence because of the defendants use of a firearm the jury must find the defendant guilty of a crime involving a firearm or otherwise specifically find that a firearm was used holding that circumstantial evidence was sufficient to withstand a motion to dismiss charge of firearm possession because defendant was found carrying a bag containing firearm residue and a gun was found concealed in a pile of tires near where defendant had been recently spotted