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Updated: Monday, 22 Oct 2012, 10:38 AM EDT
Published : Monday, 22 Oct 2012, 10:38 AM EDT
MUNCIE, Ind. (WISH) - Pointing a gun at an Indiana State trooper’s vehicle led to a man’s arrest early Sunday morning in Delaware County.
Indiana State Police officials said a trooper was transporting an arrestee in an unmarked car around 1:30 a.m. Sunday. The trooper’s car was stopped at 26th Street and Madison Avenue when another vehicle passed by. The other vehicle’s rear passenger pointed a handgun out the window before pointing the gun upward and firing a shot into the air.
No one was shot. Officers pulled over the vehicle and arrested 27-year-old Richie Lee Morton, of Muncie. He faces preliminary charges of criminal recklessness, felon in possession of a firearm and pointing a firearm. Investigators uncovered a .380-caliber handgun.
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