JACKSON COUNTY, Fla. (WTXL) - A Louisiana man has been arrested for pointing a handgun at another vehicle while traveling in Jackson County.
The Florida Highway Patrol says that the incident happened around 1 p.m. Tuesday on I-10 at mile marker 158 (Sneads exit).
They say an altercation between 34-year-old Christopher George Wilkinson of Laplace, La., and another driver escalated, resulting in Wilkinson pointing a gun at the occupants in the other car.
FHP troopers later stopped Wilkinson at a rest stop near mile marker 133.
After an investigation, they arrested him for the felony of aggravated assault with a firearm and the misdemeanor of obstruction without violence.
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