The incident happened around noon in the parking lot of the USPS New Jersey Priority Mail Processing Center on Harrison Avenue.
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People taking to social media described a tense situation.
Patrol officers located the vehicle and confirmed that a man was asleep in the car with his hand on what appeared to be a handgun. The man was later identified as Xsayvire Smalls, 29, of Newark, a Postal Service employee.
Police say SWAT crisis negotiators tried to talk with Smalls, but he did not respond.
SWAT officers then removed him from the car without injury.
A gun was recovered from the car, police said, and confirmed to be a type of BB/pellet gun.
There was no threat to the public, police said.
The police activity was cleared shortly after 1:00 p.m.
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