Last modified: Thursday, July 3, 2008 5:21 PM EDT Ex-Patriot Andrews held in dangerousness hearing on gun charge BY RICK FOSTER SUN CHRONICLE STAFF ATTLEBORO - A former New England Patriots player could be spending the next three months in jail prior to his trial on gun charges following a dangerousness hearing in Attleboro District Court. Judge John Canavan ruled Thursday that former defensive back Willie Andrews could be held up to 90 days without bail after allegedly waving an automatic pistol at his ex-fiance in their Mansfield home. The couple also has an 18-month hold daughter living with them. The woman, Krystal Myers, 23, has since moved back to Virginia along with the baby to live with her parents. The Patriots earlier this week dropped Andrews, a second year player from Baylor University. During the hearing, Assistant District Attorney Paul Machado presented witnesses and a tape recording of Myers' Monday morning 911 call in which she said Andrews had waved a .45-caliber pistol at her, once coming near her temple. Myers also told police Andrews had threatened her previously. Myers said she believed the weapon might not have been loaded at the time. The prosecution also presented testimony by Mansfield police detectives detailing a search for the weapon. Workers at the couple's apartment complex recovered a black box containing a loaded Glock semi-automatic pistol. The box contained papers linking the weapon to a Waco, Texas, resident and former teammate of Andrews. However, defense lawyer Sean Delaney challenged the efforts to link the gun to Andrews, saying investigators had not asked critical questions of the gun owner as to whether he had given or loaned the gun to anyone. Police Sgt. Larry Crossman of the Mansfield Police Department testified about events leading up to Andrews' arrest after Myers made a 911 call to police, saying Andrews appeared to have been drinking and was brandishing a gun. Police later arrested Andrews and conducted a search for the weapon using police dogs. Employees of Andrews' apartment complex reported finding a gun near a Dumpster later in the morning. Testimony during the hearing indicated that Andrews followed Myers to a nearby hotel after she left the apartment. However, Myers said Andrews was calm at that point and did not threaten her. Crossman said Andrews was spotted in the parking lot of the hotel by a police officer, and that Andrews left after the police car arrived. Crossman also testified that when Andrews was given an opportunity to make a phone call during the booking process, he called Myers. He said Myers told him that Andrews urged her to tell authorities that the incident had been a "misunderstanding." However, Myers said on the 911 tape that was not true. "There really was a gun," she said. Detective Paul Hargadon testified the he was notified several hours after Myers' initial 911 call that two workers at the Depot apartment complex had found a black box containing the Glock, a gun shop receipt and ammunition near a Dumpster in the same apartment development about three tenths of a mile from the couple's home. He said the ownership papers indicated that the gun belonged to Brandon Stiggers, who was a teammate of Andrews in 2005 at Baylor. Waco police later obtained a statement from Stiggers saying that the gun had been missing since he moved last May. He said he never reported the weapon missing. Stiggers' statement did not point a finger directly at Andrews, but he confirmed that Andrews had visited his house. Delaney attempted to poke holes in any connection between Andrews and the gun, saying police had done little to connect the dots. Ballistics and fingerprint tests on the weapon have not yet been completed, Hargadon testified.