Newark man was arrested Tuesday, authorities said.
Newark man was arrested at the Essex County Hall of Records Tuesday, authorities said. NEWARK -- A city man was arrested Tuesday after authorities said he brought a handgun into a county court complex, and ran from the building when security personnel found it.
Leon Mack, 55, was arrested on various weapons charges, as well as on charges of resisting arrest, after allegedly arriving at the Essex County Hall of Records Tuesday morning with a handgun in his backpack, Sheriff Armando Fontoura announced in a release Tuesday afternoon.
As the backpack went through the building's x-ray security machine, sheriff's officers found the defaced, fully loaded, .25 caliber, semi-automatic handgun, Fontoura said.
Mack, who authorities said was there to attend a pending tenant-landlord court matter, ran from the building immediately, officials said. He was quickly arrested, and is being held in the Essex County Jail on $100,000 cash bond, officials said.
"Our officers performed most admirably in immediately noticing and securing the weapon and in arresting the suspect," Fontoura said in the release.
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