Newly released police footage shows Justin Layne fretted over a loaded gun found inside his car after he was arrested by police outside Cleveland on Friday.
During the traffic stop, officers found a loaded 9mm handgun inside the center console and observed “loose marijuana particles strewn throughout the vehicle.”
While the Pittsburgh Steelers cornerback was seated in the back of the police car, he could be heard having a phone conversation with a friend.
“I’m nervous as f—, bro,” Layne tells someone he called while in custody, according to TMZ Sports. “They about to get me.”
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“They might get me for the pistol, bro,” he said, according to Cleveland.com, adding: “It’s over, I’m going down.”
“They acting like I got some drugs — I got one blunt!” he said, according to TMZ Sports.
Layne is facing one charge of felony transportation of a firearm inside of a vehicle and two misdemeanor charges of driving with a suspended license and driving over the speed limit.