LAKEPORT, Calif. – A Lakeport man arrested on Sunday in the city’s evacuated area was found to be illegally in possession of a concealed weapon.

Gregory Brunner, 32, was taken into custody on Sunday morning, according to the Lakeport Police Department.

At about 11 a.m. Sunday, Clearlake Police Officer Mark Harden, who was assisting the Lakeport Police Department and the Lake County Sheriff’s Office in patrolling the evacuated areas in and around Lakeport, conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle in the evacuated area, police said.

Police said the driver of the vehicle, identified as Brunner, was found to have a suspended driver’s license. Bruner was arrested for driving on a suspended driver’s license.

During a search incident to arrest, Brunner was found to be in possession of a loaded Glock 9 millimeter handgun. Police said the serial number of the firearm had been damaged so that the number was not readable.

Brunner is a convicted felon and is prohibited from possessing firearms or ammunition. Police said Brunner was additionally charged with felon in possession of a firearm, felon in possession of ammunition, possession of a concealed firearm, possession of a loaded firearm in public, altering a firearms serial number, and entering a closed disaster area.

He later was booked into the Lake County Jail, authorities reported.