Police Discover Loaded Guns During Routine Traffic Stop

A Lakewood police officer stopped a 2014 black Chevy Cruz on Monday night at the 11800 block of Edgewater Drive for having no license plate light and noticed that there was a gun sticking out of the pocket behind the passenger seat of the vehicle. The four men in the car were handcuffed and the car was searched, reports cleveland.com. A second loaded weapon was discovered in the glovebox.

The four men, Devin Tirrell Hookfin, 19, of Cleveland, Michael Robert Harper, 20, Rayshawn Lanelle Byrd Lewis, 20 and James Neil Underwood III, 19, of Garfield Heights were arrested and and charged with carrying concealed weapons according to court records.

Underwood is no stranger to weapons charges, he was arrested for stealing a gun from a gun show in Berea in May of this year. Underwood is still in the Cuyahoga County Jail on a $50,000 bond.

All four men denied ownership of the guns. The driver, Hookfin was also charged with driving under suspension and failure to have a license plate light. He has an Aug. 1 hearing scheduled in Lakewood.

The men were all in the Cuyahoga County Jail as of Wednesday, their cases have been turned over to a Cuyahoga County grand jury according to cleveland.com.