SALINE COUNTY – Law enforcement authorities are investigating a suspect on new weapons charges.

Just before 5a.m. Wednesday, Salina Police were sent to the 400 block of South Connecticut Street after a man reported that his neighbor had shot his house with a shotgun.

Officers made contact with the neighbor 35-year-old James Nestler who told them that someone had shot through his bedroom window with a “silenced air pellet gun.”

Salina Police Capt. Paul Forrester said Nestler went to return fire with his 10-gauge black powder shotgun; he shot out his window, hitting the neighbor’s storm door on the north side of the residence.

Police arrested Nestler for criminal discharge of a firearm into an occupied building and criminal damage to property.

Damage to the door was estimated at $25. There were no reported injuries.

Nestler has a number of previous convictions on similar gun and criminal damage charges. He also has previous drug, theft, driving and child endangerment convictions.