UPDATE: Yonkers police department posted on Facebook that after searching a man on Ravine Avenue a loaded, defaced illegal handgun was allegedly recovered. for some reason the department broke with their routine of issuing press releases to the media. A source in the original story indicated that no gun or drugs were recovered. However the police department is test the suspects clothes for the possibility of drug residue. The Original story follows below….

YONKERS: Police Department Commissioner John Mueller claims a man allegedly threatened to shoot people on Ravine Avenue and his officers became intoxicated while searching him

Commissioner Mueller says one of his officers, became semi-consciousness and fell striking his head on the pavement.

The Empress Ambulance call initially came in a possible seizure.

A police source says the YPD recovered no drugs or a weapon in the search.

A Yonkers Police source also says the suspect was hospitalized for a mental evaluation

Other police officers were taken to the hospital to be evaluated and released.