Stafford Sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy said Deputy Mark Steininger was on U.S. 17 about 12:18 a.m. near Commerce Parkway when he saw a silver Saturn SUV that matched the description a vehicle reported fleeing from Fauquier.

Kennedy said deputies were told that the man in the vehicle had just been involved in a shooting.

Several attempts to get information about that shooting from the Fauquier Sheriff’s Office Wednesday were unsuccessful.

Steininger got behind the vehicle, which was weaving and fluctuating speeds, and stopped it.

The shooting suspect was in the passenger’s seat and a gun was under the seat. Pills and marijuana were also recovered from the vehicle, Kennedy said.

Jerry Curtis, 51, of Sumerduck was charged in Stafford County with possessing a firearm as a felon, carrying a concealed weapon as a felon and possession of marijuana.

He was turned over to Fauquier deputies who came to the scene.

The driver of the SUV, 51-year-old Cynthia C. Cordell of Richmond, was charged with driving while intoxicated, two counts of possession of illegal drugs and possession of marijuana.

She was placed in the Rappahannock Regional Jail.

Keith Epps: 540/374-5404

kepps@freelancestar.com