Bensalem Man Pulled a Gun During Confrontation, Police Say

Three people have been arrested and charged on multiple counts of simple assault, making terroristic threats, carrying an unlicensed firearm and reckless endangerment after a gun was pulled during an argument with two victims outside a home in Bensalem.

According to police, the victims identified Rhyzell Yancey, 20, Brittany Steblein, 19, and Brandon Rimer, Jr., 19, as the three people traveling in a car speeding down Mill Road on July 28. When the victims yelled at the car to slow down, the driver, later identified as Yancey, slowed down and began arguing, police say. The victims told police that Yancey said he was going to return and they will have "straps" (slang for a gun).

The vehicle returned to the scene 10 minutes later with the same three passengers and two more men, according to the victims. When they exited the car, one of the victims ran into the house and grabbed knife to defend his girlfriend and an infant that was inside a car they were loading with clothes, according to the affidavit.

The victim told police that Yancey pointed a gun at his face and said he was going to shoot while Steblein tried to instigate his girlfriend into a fight. The victim also told police he saw another man across the street with a gun, but could not identify him. No shots were fired, and the victims wrote down the license plate number of the vehicle as the suspects fled the scene, according to the report.

Police say they tracked down the registration to Steblein's mother, who told officers her daughter was at her boyfriend's apartment in Bensalem. According to the criminal complaint, officers encountered Steblein and Yancey and searched the apartment at the owner's consent, where they found a Smith and Wesson .38 Special revolver loaded with six hollow point rounds under Yancey's mattress. Officers say they also found drug paraphernalia in Yancey's room.

The victim identified Rhyzell as the one who pointed the gun, Steblein as the female passenger and Rimer as a third passenger, police say. According to police, Steblein told officers they did not return to the scene a second time and Yancey denied bringing a gun to the scene. The affidavit says Rimer at first denied they came back to the scene, then later admitted that they did return.

Police say that Yancey admitted to taking the gun from the home of Rimer's grandparents, who told police the gun was taken without their knowledge.

Yancey and Rimer have been confined to the Bucks County Correctional Facility, unable to post 10 percent of $150,000 bail. Steblein could not post 10 percent of $50,000 bail and has also been confined.