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GRETNA, La. (WGNO) – Gretna Police arrested two men Tuesday night after they reportedly fired shots at police from a vehicle while officers were conducting a traffic stop on another vehicle.

According to Gretna Police, two officers were conducting a traffic stop in a parking lot of an open business in the 80 block of Westbank Expressway about 11 p.m. Tuesday, when they heard a single gunshot come from the elevated portion of the westbound expressway at Stumpf Boulevard.

Officers took cover and saw a vehicle driving westbound on the expressway. They heard more shots coming from the vehicle, prompting people in the parking lot to run inside a business.

Police found the vehicle speeding down the expressway and arrested the driver, 33-year-old Donald Arabie, and his passenger, 40-year-old Shane Tierney.

Police said they found a semi-automatic pistol in the vehicle, along with spent bullet casings and 82 ecstasy tablets.

Officers said Arabie and Tierney had been drinking, and both of the men took ecstasy earlier in the evening.

The suspects admitted to seeing the blue lights of the police units below the expressway and firing shots to scare the officers.

Arabie and Tierney were booked on charges of terrorizing, illegal use of a weapon, possession with intent to distribute ecstasy, possession of drug paraphernalia and use of a firearm with controlled dangerous substance.

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