The 21-year-old man, who arrived at the Justice Center with his mother, set off the metal detector when he went through it. Officers searched a bag that he had placed on a conveyor and found the weapons, county spokeswoman Kelly Woodard said.
Two guns, including an Uzi, were found in a bag a man tried to bring into the Cuyahoga County Justice Center on Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023.CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A man was arrested at the Cuyahoga County Justice Center on Wednesday morning after courthouse security officers said they found an Uzi submachine gun, a pistol and several boxes of bullets inside a bag that he brought to the building, a county spokeswoman said.
The man and his mother tried to get into the building about 9 a.m., county spokeswoman Kelly Woodard said in an email. The security officers noted the woman appeared nervous as the two were going through the building’s security checkpoint, Woodard said. Officers patted both the man and the woman down and didn’t find any other weapons. The woman then left the building, but sheriff’s deputies tracked her down outside and arrested her, Woodard said.
In an email to Justice Center staff sent just before 3 p.m., the court’s administrator, Greg Popovich, said that “no one was in danger” and praised the courthouse security staff, who are employed by the sheriff’s department.
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