Utah Highway Patrol troopers arrested a man who allegedly brandished a gun in a road rage incident on Interstate 80 over the weekend.
Emergency dispatchers received a report around 10:55 a.m. Saturday, stating the driver of a black Land Rover had flipped the complainant off and raised a silver pistol while looking “visibly upset,” according to the arrest report.
State troopers waited approximately 10 miles down the road from where the incident was reported. They watched the Land Rover pass and “observed [the] driver leaning to the right and reaching over the center console.”
Summit County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to the area to assist with the arrest, and law enforcement officials initiated a high-risk traffic stop.
“I verbally called the driver out at gunpoint and placed him in handcuffs,” one trooper wrote in the arrest report. “He told us that the firearm was under the seat. … [We were] able to locate the firearm wedged in between the front passenger seat and the center console. The firearm was loaded, and the upper slide of the pistol was silver in color.”
The driver of the Land Rover was arrested for allegedly threatening to use a dangerous weapon in a fight, but no official criminal charges have been filed yet in Summit County’s Third District Court.