RICHLAND, Wash.- Richland Police Department says they have arrested a man after they believe he was on drugs in the driver’s seat of his car. RPD says they responded to the area of 1411 Williams for a disturbance where it was reported that several people were fighting. Officers say they found a man in a car slumped over the wheel covered in drug paraphernalia. RPD says when officers tried to arrest the man, he refused to comply and reached for a loaded gun on his hip. Officers say they quickly secured the man and then he passed out to the drugs. Officers say they gave him Narcan and first aid until medics arrived.
RPD says after the driver was cleared, he was taken to jail and booked on a 72-hour hold for unlawful possession of a firearm, physical control of a vehicle while under the influence, obstruction, resisting arrest, and altering the serial number of a firearm.
