An Arkansas parole officer pointed a gun at Pulaski County sheriff's deputies who questioned him after finding him passed out in a car Tuesday night, authorities said.
Christopher Brandon Harris, 31, was charged with aggravated assault, refusal to submit to arrest, carrying certain prohibited weapons and driving while intoxicated.
According to a sheriff's office report, deputies found Harris passed out in the driver's seat of a black Dodge Charger in a parking lot in the 14400 block of Arch Street Pike, just north of Pratt Road, around 10 p.m.
The deputies roused Harris, who appeared to be unsteady on his feet, smelled of alcohol and at one point reached for a deputy's pocket, the report states.
"Harris again reached for me with his right hand and, as his right hand cleared his side, I observed a small silver item in his hand, pointing at my waist," Deputy Joshua Gardner wrote in the report. "I grabbed his right wrist with my left hand and pulled the item free from his hand. I then looked at the item and found it to be a small Derringer type handgun."
Arkansas Department of Community Correction spokesman Dina Tyler said Wednesday that Harris, who was hired as a parole officer in 2014, had been fired.
Harris of Star City was being held in the Pulaski County jail late Wednesday.
