The incident happened around 8:24 a.m. on Friday, May 16, on Hudson Avenue in Guttenberg, according to Police Chief Frank Pelaez.
Officers were alerted by a concerned passerby who reported a man passed out in a vehicle, police said. When officers arrived, they found the car in reverse and angled into the roadway, with the driver asleep and bleeding heavily from his finger.
The man, later identified as Jeferson Marte-Peralta, 33, of West New York, was evaluated by EMS. During that time, Police Officer Camille Calupad saw the handle of a handgun wrapped in a jacket on the front seat…