LIBERTY — A folded and illegible temporary tag led to the arrests of two Youngstown men on active warrants and one being arrested Thursday on new charges by Liberty police.

Kevin Washington, 21, was arrested on a failure to comply warrant and Jeremy Sams, 27, was arrested on charges of improper handling and carrying a concealed weapon, while Timothy Overton, 26, was arrested on numerous warrants through the Youngstown Police Department and the Mahoning County Sheriff’s Office.

According to the police report, an officer was on patrol near Frederick Street when he saw a white Pontiac with a sheet of plastic over the rear window and a damaged and folded temporary tag. The officer conducted a traffic stop in the Liberty Mini Mart’s parking lot on Belmont Avenue.

After identifying Washington, the driver, and Sams, the front-seat passenger, the officer ran their information through LEADS and found Washington’s failure to comply warrant and arrested him. Sams and Overton denied there being any guns in the car as the officer continued to look into Washington. However, when the officer began his inventory of the vehicle before it was to be impounded, he observed a tan and black Glock 43 handgun under Sams’ seat, who “spontaneously uttered” to the other officer on the scene that he had a gun under his seat and didn’t want Overton or Washington to get in trouble, the police report states.

The gun contained a loaded magazine of 9 mm rounds with one round already in the chamber.

Sams, who officers initially didn’t see an active warrant for, was charged with improper handling and carrying a concealed weapon, although he was later found to have an unentered misdemeanor warrant through Mahoning County Court, the report states.