GWINNETT COUNTY, GA — Police in metro Atlanta arrested a man who is accused of leaving a gun inside a bookbag at the site of a teen takeover last month.

On March 14, Gwinnett County police were working a special detail after reports of a “possible teen takeover.”

Officers saw a man wearing a ski mask behind a building where the takeover was reported to be taking place.

“Due to the suspicious circumstances, aviation officers assisting with the operation were asked to maintain visual surveillance of the male,” Gwinnett County police said.

Aviation units followed a man later identified as 33-year-old James Prayer to a nearby parking lot, where he was observed setting down a bookbag and walking away from it.

Prayer is accused of placing his electric bike into the trunk of a friend’s vehicle and left the area. Officers retrieved the abandoned bookbag and located a gun inside. In the body camera footage released by the Gwinnett County police during a traffic stop, Prayer is heard telling officers that he had nothing in his possession at the time.

“Right now, you are correct,” an officer said. “There is nothing on you right now.”

Prayer is heard telling the officer, “I shouldn’t be going to jail for nothing that’s on me.”

The officer replied, “you are going to jail.”

Prayer faces reckless endangerment and being a felon in possession of a firearm charges.