Summer Impact officers with the Worcester Police Department say a late-night welfare check on Church Street turned into a gun and drug arrest, after they found a 58-year-old man slumped over the wheel of a parked car with a loaded firearm and a small bag of suspected fentanyl close at hand.
According to officers, the car was spotted late Wednesday and the driver appeared to be unconscious. When they approached, police say the man was eventually removed from the vehicle, a leather holster was recovered from the area where he had been reaching, and a firearm was later discovered inside a backpack in the car. The man was transported to a hospital for evaluation, and the department’s Crime Scene Unit processed the weapon at the scene. Police booked him on multiple firearm and drug charges.
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