Posted on 02/10/2023 11:05:09 AM PST by simpson96
YPSILANTI, Mich. – A man who had recently been placed on probation for firearms charges used a gun in a Taco Bell drive-thru to get free pop, Washtenaw County officials said.
Eddie Lee Nailor, 31, is accused of possessing a firearm in a criminal complaint that was filed Jan. 20 and unsealed Feb. 1.
A 911 dispatcher received a call the night of Dec. 14 from the assistant manager of the Taco Bell at 2995 Washtenaw Avenue in Ypsilanti.
The assistant manager reported that one of his employees had been working the drive-thru window when he noticed her giving a customer a free pop. He asked her why she had done that, and she told him that she was “dealing with a man who had a gun in his vehicle.”
She said she had given the man pop because there was a gun in his lap and and an alcoholic beverage in the console while he completed his food order, according to court records.
“She was trying to ‘get him out of there by giving him whatever he wanted,’” the complaint reads.
The assistant manager told police that the silver Chevrolet Impala had left the restaurant about five minutes prior, heading west on Washteaw Avenue. He also provided the license plate number.(snip)
Deputies explained that the car had been pulled over because of the call from Taco Bell and asked Nailor if he had a gun. Nailor denied having a gun and was asked to step out of the car, according to authorities. He said, “I can’t do that,” and, “No,” the criminal complaint says.
The woman in the front seat began arguing with and yelling at the deputies, so they asked for identification, they said. Nailor and the woman both refused to provide their IDs.
After asking Nailor repeatedly to exit the car, one deputy ordered Nailor to do so, but he refused and continued to argue, officials said.
After about four minutes, backup Washtenaw County deputies arrived at the scene.
One of the deputies who showed up at 11:41 p.m. spoke with the woman in the passenger seat and saw her stuffing something into her pants, the criminal complaint says. She claimed she was grabbing her “weed.”
She was asked multiple times to step out of the car, and finally complied, police said.
Another deputy walked up to the car with his flashlight and saw a gun on the floorboard under the passenger’s seat, he said. The deputy yelled, “Gun,” and Nailor was forcefully removed from the driver’s seat, according to court records.
Nailor resisted arrest and was handcuffed while on the ground, police said.
“As Nailor was being placed into handcuffs, he stiffened his body out, cursed at the deputies, continued to argue, and did not willfully allow officers to place him into custody,” the criminal complaint reads.
The woman was also placed into handcuffs and detained because the gun was found in an “open and accessible location,” deputies said.
The woman was taken to the back of a patrol car and agreed to speak to a deputy. The deputy explained what had been reported by Taco Bell workers.
“(She) stated that she was confused and didn’t understand why the Taco Bell would call about them and that there was no altercation, and the employee even gave them a ‘free pop,’” the criminal complaint says.
After being placed in the back of a police car, Nailor was told that there was a gun in the car, but he refuted that detail, officials said.
Deputies told Nailor about the report from Taco Bell, and he questioned the report, according to authorities.
The handgun was recovered from the floorboard, court records show. Deputies said they found “a large amount of marijuana” in the console area and a Taco Bell bag on the floor across from the gun.
When deputies tried to question Nailor about the gun, he didn’t cooperate.
Nailor told police that he had an injured hand, so they said they agreed to lengthen the handcuffs on his way to jail. While in the back seat, he slipped the handcuffs underneath his legs from behind his back to bring his hands to the front of his body, authorities said.
Nailor was told he couldn’t move the handcuffs to the front of his body, and deputies asked him to go back to the original position, but he refused, they said.(snip)
A special agent examined the gun from the Impala and determined it to be a Sig Sauer P229 pistol that had been stolen Dec. 18, 2021, in Detroit.
The owner of the gun had told Detroit police at the time that someone smashed through the back window of his parked vehicle and took the pistol from under his driver’s seat.
Officials said the serial number of the stolen Sig Sauer matched the serial number of the one found in the Impala.
The special agent said the gun was loaded with 12 rounds of 9 mm ammunition.
Nailor’s previous criminal history includes a no contest plea of armed robbery out of Washtenaw County on Feb. 14, 2013, according to the complaint.
He was sentenced to 3.5-20 years in prison and served five years.
On Sept. 28, 2022, Nailor pleaded guilty in Washtenaw County to carrying a concealed weapon, felon in possession of a firearm, and felon in possession of ammunition.
He was sentenced to two years of probation -- Sept. 28, 2022, to Sept. 28, 2024.
ClickOnDetroit sure is thorough.
This is like the Chris Rock skit, down to the angry woman in the car yelling at police and talking about “weed”. Too funny.
(Nailor and the woman both refused to provide their IDs.)
I’m shocked. Shocked I tell ya.
Pop is what Yankees call soda.
That’s all they sell that he coukd stomach.
Damn Yankees.
Willing to surrender his new freedom for a stolen bottle of pop.
Somebody that dumb and short sighted belongs in jail. He can’t properly manage his life. He will beg somebody like Kim Kardashian to bail him out again because of all the “racism”.
No, it isn’t. No one in New England or the Mid-Atlantic calls it pop.
Where’s Ted Nugent?
Mid-western yankees do.
Midwestern people do, but they’re not Yankees except to rednecks.
P.S. Jefferson Davis is dead….
Everybody north of I-20 is a Yankee.
Oh, no we're not!!
And it's not "soda" or "pop". It's "coke"! LOL
I agree.
Some will say that people in New England call it "tonic" but I think that's pretty much out of style at this point. I can't remember the last time I heard someone say tonic. It's pretty much "soda".
To the ignorant.
Okay, but was he wearing his mask?
Shoulda asked for water. Better for you, free, and it would have kept you out of prison.
Lighten up yankee,
The War of Northern Aggression ended a long time ago!
According to this report, he didn’t brandish the gun and order the worker to give him a free ‘pop’.
He simply had the gun in his car.... and the chick flipped and called cops.
This could happen to any of us.
Murky journalism.
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