(La Porte County, IN) - A traffic stop in La Porte County resulted in the arrest of the driver on gun and drug related charges.

 

Patrick Wright, 22, was being held in the La Porte County Jail on multiple counts, including Level 5 felony possession of a machine gun without a license and possession of marijuana, a Class B misdemeanor.

 

According to Indiana State Police, the Chicago area man was pulled over Wednesday night on the Indiana Toll Road near the 50 mile marker for not having working taillights on his vehicle.

 

Police said an odor of marijuana from the 2017 BMW resulted in a search and discovery of a loaded handgun equipped with a switch that makes the semi-automatic gun function as a fully automatic weapon. 

 

The gun with an extended magazine came back as stolen out of Illinois, police said. An undisclosed amount of marijuana was also allegedly recovered from the vehicle.