MIDDLEBURG HEIGHTS, Ohio – A wanted Maple Heights man, 36, carrying a 9 mm handgun was arrested at about 7:30 a.m. Aug. 25 at Crowne Plaza, 7230 Engle Road.

A hotel worker called police about an unwanted guest, who was the Maple Heights man. Hotel staff had earlier contacted police about a handgun they found in the man’s room, inside a nightstand drawer.

When police arrived, the man was standing in the lobby with a 41-year-old South Carolina woman. Police learned that the man was wanted in Cleveland and Cleveland Heights.

Police placed the man in handcuffs and sat him in a cruiser. They escorted the woman to the room where she and the man had been staying so that she could gather her belongings.

The woman gave police consent to look in the nightstand drawers. In one of the drawers they

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