A Colorado man was arrested after allegedly pointing a rifle at another person at a rest stop.
According to the Nebraska State Patrol, on Sunday at 8:55 a.m. troopers responded to a verbal altercation between two men at an eastbound I-80 rest stop near Cozad.
One of the men reported that the man he was arguing with pulled out a rifle and pointed it towards him. The suspect then placed the rifle in a minivan and entered a Chevy Malibu, followed by both vehicles leaving the scene.
Troopers located the Malibu and performed a traffic stop, and took Jonah McKinley, 28, of Colorado Springs, Colorado into custody. Dawson County Sheriff’s Deputies located the minivan and performed a traffic stop. The rifle was located and discovered to be defaced. The minivan was driven by McKinley’s girlfriend.
It was found that McKinley was prohibited from possessing a firearm and in violation of a protection order held by his girlfriend against him.
McKinley was arrested for making terroristic threats, use of a firearm to commit a felony, possession of a defaced firearm, possession of a short rifle, violation of a protection order, and no operator’s license. He was lodged in Dawson County Jail.
