Traffic Stop Yields Drugs, Stolen Guns, Machete: CMPD

CHARLOTTE, NC — A recent traffic stop in Cotswold in east Charlotte unearthed two stolen guns, marijuana, digital scales and led to three arrests. Charlotte officers had to chase one suspect on foot, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police said in a statement Tuesday.

A third suspect, who refused to get out of the vehicle, was Tasered by officers to “gain compliance.” It would prove to be his third encounter with police in as many days, as police would later determine he had been arrested for breaking and entering and was part of an investigation after he was shot in the leg the day before.

CMPD officers made the traffic stop Friday, April 13 in the 1000 block of McAlway Road. When they approached the minivan, they smelled marijuana and saw a machete lying on a seat.

The driver of the minivan, Marlon Keitrail Lomax, 23, told officers he did not have a driver’s license. He complied when officers asked him to get out of the vehicle.

His two passengers, however, did not.

Zsa’quan Deshawn Maurice Burris, 20, initially refused CMPD officer demands to get out of the van. When he did, he ran. Officers apprehended Burris after a brief foot chase and discovered he was in possession of marijuana.

Backseat passenger Timothy Andrew Quintyne, 35, also refused to get out of the vehicle, and “began reaching for the machete and yelling at the officers [to] shoot him,” the CMPD report said. “The officers used a Taser to gain compliance and then took him into custody.”

After searching the van, officers found two handguns under the front seats that had been reported stolen last year during vehicle break-ins in Charlotte. Officers also found marijuana, digital scales, an open bottle of alcohol and more than $600 in cash.

Lomax, the driver of the van, was charged with driving while license revoked, carrying a concealed weapon and possession of a stolen firearm.

Burris was charged with possession with intent to sell and distribute marijuana, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, carrying a concealed gun, resisting, possession of a stolen firearm and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Quintyne was taken to the hospital from the scene of the traffic stop due to the Taser, and warrants will be served upon his release. CMPD said he will be charged with carrying a concealed weapon, resisting, possession of a stolen firearm, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and open container.

He was also arrested April 11 and charged with breaking and entering and damage to property and was shot in the leg April 12 in a case that CMPD said is still under investigation.

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