Three men from Dănceni village of Ialoveni district were arrested by the police after one of them fired several shots while traveling by a car on Grenoble St in Botanica district of Chisinau, IPN reports.

According to the National Public Safety Inspectorate, patrol officers working in Botanica district were alerted at about 11:30pm. The car by which the three men were travelling was stopped shortly afterward.

The car was driven by a 49-year-old man who had two passengers aged 27 and 37. The gunshots were fired by the youngest man, who said that he took the gun from a friend. The patrol officers confiscated the gun.

The men were escorted to the Centru Police Station for being penalized.