On Tuesday around noon Marion City Police Officers responded to the 490 block of Cherry Street for a suspicious person in a car that had been running since 6am.
When the officers arrived, they found 21-year-old Carl Hook, of Marion asleep in the car with his arm resting on a small caliber handgun. When the officers tried to wake up Hook, he picked up the gun and tossed it as the officers attempted to remove him from the car.
A loaded pistol, 9 grams of cocaine and 21.5 Ecstasy pills were seized from the vehicle.