Man Arrested For Pointing a Gun at a Sparks Police Officer

A man who pulled out a handgun and pointed it at a Sparks Police Department officer on May 31 was arrested Thursday. The incident happened as the officer was on patrol driving through a parking lot in the 2400 block of Victorian Avenue. As the officer passed a group of people, one of those in the group drew a handgun and pointed it at the officer. The officer did not see it. On Thursday, another officer was reviewing surveillance video from an unrelated incident and saw it. Sparks police and the Regional Crime Suppression Unit identified the suspect as Jonathon Cecil Stroud. He was arrested him for aiming a gun at a person.