TULSA, Okla. — Tulsa Police arrested a man on gun and drug charges after they say he was passed out in a car while holding a gun on Tuesday.
Police say officers responded to the call near 21st and Memorial. They said a man was passed out in a car, with the car on, holding a gun in his hand.
Police said they were worried about waking the man up while he had a gun in his hand.
“We went up tried to knock on the window, didn’t get a response, but they also noticed he had a gun in his hand and the car was in drive which is a difficult set of circumstances to deal with,” Lieutenant Brandon Wykoff said.
Officers blocked him in and used their sirens to wake him up.
“Used three patrol vehicles to block in the car. He was pretty out of it, didn’t notice us at all and then with hitting the siren several times and making several announcements over the PA. He finally kind of started moving and woke up,” Wykoff said.
Kent Cox runs Basketcase Disc Golf, a business in the strip mall, and says the property manager called the emergency services after noticing a car had been running for hours in the parking lot with its headlights on for hours.