NEWS RELEASE
MICHIGAN STATE POLICE
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GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY — On Sunday evening, April 7, 2024, a trooper from the Michigan State Police (MSP) Traverse City Post stopped a vehicle on southbound M-37 near Grouse Drive in Blair Township for a moving violation.
The driver, a 27-year-old man from Traverse City, displayed signs of intoxication.
The trooper asked the driver if he had any weapons inside the vehicle. The man said he had a handgun and shotgun in the backseat. Both firearms were loaded and uncased.
Sobriety tests were administered, and the driver was placed under arrest for operating while intoxicated. He was lodged in the Grand Traverse County Jail pending arraignment for operating while intoxicated, carrying concealed weapons, possession loaded firearm in a vehicle, and having open intoxicants.
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