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Beach Park man arrested after getting out of car with gun during traffic stop

BEACH PARK – A Beach Park man faces charges after he got out of his vehicle with a gun and then resisted arrest during a traffic stop, police said.

About 7 p.m. May 3, a Lake County sheriff’s deputy was on patrol in the area of Sheridan Road south of Wadsworth Road in Beach Park. The deputy observed a vehicle traveling on Sheridan Road in a reckless manner – speeding, weaving between vehicles, driving over a curb – before pulling into the Beach Mobile Home Park, according to a news release.

The deputy turned into the mobile home park to conduct a traffic stop. As the deputy pulled in, the driver, Quentin Newbrey, 34, of the 38700 block of North Sheridan Road, Beach Park, parked and exited the vehicle, police said. Newbrey was armed with a semiautomatic pistol and quickly approached the front door of a mobile home. The sheriff’s deputy gave instructions for Newbrey to drop the pistol, which he did.

After dropping the firearm, Newbrey was noncompliant with the deputy. Newbrey pulled his pants down and began to urinate on the side of the mobile home, ignoring the deputy’s instructions. The deputy then used his Taser on Newbrey and was able to take Newbrey into custody.

Newbrey was uninjured and was taken to the Lake County Jail, where he resisted correctional officers and was pepper sprayed, police said.

Newbrey was charged with unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon, aggravated unlawful possession of a firearm, possessing a firearm while not being eligible for a FOID card, resisting arrest and reckless driving.

Newbrey was being held at the Lake County Jail on $75,000 bail pending a return court date of May 20.

Source: The Daily Chronicle

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