Man with loaded gun detained outside of Joe Biden event in LA

Vice President Joe Biden.
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A man with a loaded handgun inside his car was arrested Wednesday outside of a Los Angeles business where Vice President Joe Biden was scheduled to speak.

The Los Angeles Police Department says that Larry Ira Estrin, 62, was stopped at a vehicle checkpoint in North Hollywood when a police dog screening cars alerted its handler that it detected a firearm. The loaded gun was found under the passenger seat, and Estrin was booked on a misdemeanor charge of possession of a loaded firearm and held in lieu of $35,000 bail, said Sgt. Kyle Kirkman of the LAPD's North Hollywood division.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.