NEWINGTON�� A Portsmouth man is charged with a felony alleging he displayed a handgun during a traffic dispute in a Cumberland Farms parking lot, said Chief Michael Bilodeau.

Charged with a Class B felony count of criminal threatening with a deadly weapon is Matthew Bruce Kinley, 34, of 278 Sherburne Road, according to police.

Bilodeau said the alleged crime occurred Tuesday, June 18 at 2:09 p.m. when he, Sgt. Brandon Smart and Master Patrolman Sean O'Reilly responded to the Cumberland Farms at Gosling Road and Woodbury Avenue for a 911 call. He said the caller reported she and her boyfriend were involved in a dispute with another driver, due to vehicle congestion in the parking lot. The caller said the other driver pulled up to her window and raised a pistol so she could see it, but did not point it at her, the chief said.

The woman followed the armed man into a nearby mall parking lot and that's where police responded, Bilodeau said. The armed man was identified as Kinley and two guns�� a loaded Ruger .38 special and an unloaded Ruger 9mm semiautomatic�� were seized from the console of his Ford Fusion, according to the chief.

Bilodeau said Kinley was cooperative and said he displayed the revolver because he felt threatened when a male passenger exited the caller's vehicle to confront him. The chief said video surveillance from the convenience store showed that was not the case.

Following Kinley's arrest, the chief said, he was released on personal recognizance bail. He is scheduled to be arraigned June 28 through the Felonies First program, in the Rockingham County Superior Court.