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June 17, 1999
Web posted at: 9:04 PM EDT (0104 GMT)

LITTLETON, Colorado (CNN) -- A 22-year-old man suspected as the "go-between" in supplying the two Columbine High School shooters with a TEC-9 handgun turned himself in Thursday to Jefferson County authorities.

Phillip Duran was arrested around 4 p.m. (6 p.m. EDT) on suspicion of two separate counts: one for unlawfully providing or permitting a juvenile to possess a handgun and another for the illegal possession of a double-barreled, pump-action sawed-off shotgun.

Bond was set at $15,000. His first court appearance is scheduled for 10 a.m. Friday (12 noon ET) and his arraignment is set for Tuesday at 10 a.m. (12 noon EDT).

The first count carries a maximum of six years in prison; the second, up to three years.

The affidavit says Duran, who worked with Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris at Blackjack Pizza, told an investigator -- just days after the April 20 massacre at Columbine -- that the two suspects had approached him three or four months earlier about buying a gun.

Duran said he gave Harris and Klebold the telephone number of Mark Manes, who was arrested on similar charges last month.

Duran told the investigator that after Manes sold the TEC-9 to the two suspects, he received $125 from Harris and Klebold as the balance owed to Manes.