Father of Saquon Barkley, running back of the Philadelphia Eagles, arrested with loaded weapon during traffic stop in New York in the Bronx

NEW YORK (WPVI) — The father of Philadelphia Eagles running back Saquon Barkley was arrested with a loaded gun following a traffic stop in New York City on Wednesday, police said.

Alibay Barkley, 55, was stopped in the Bronx around 7 p.m. after officers noticed that his license plate on a 2019 Corvette did not match the vehicle’s registration, police said.

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Officers stopped the elder Barkley at the corner of East 140th Street and Third Avenue and found the fully loaded gun. They said the Corvette was also unregistered.

Alibay Barkley told police, “This is my wife’s gun. We keep it for security reasons, because of who my son is, and because we often come to the Bronx to visit,” the criminal complaint states.

When asked about the car, he told investigators his son had bought it for him.

At the time of his arrest, a relative was with him in the vehicle, but it was not his son, an NFL star.

Alibay Barkley was charged with illegal possession of weapons and possession of ammunition, among other charges. According to the New York Department of Justice, he was released on $5,000 bail on Thursday.

He is expected to appear in court again on June 11.

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According to our sister station WABC, Alibay Barkley does not have a license to carry the weapon in New York State.

Alibay Barkley lives in Pennsylvania and has been convicted of gun possession since he was 19 years old; he spent a year in prison on Rikers Island.

Saquon’s mother and the family soon moved away from New York.

In 2016, he was arrested and tasered for refusing to get off a bus to Allentown, Pennsylvania, after being accused of not paying. He later sued the police and the bus company for discrimination, settling for $45,000 in 2018.