Thirty plus years ago in SoCal (Riverside Co. I believe) a deputy sheriff relieved an arrestee of a concealed pistol. Having no good place to put it while finishing the arrest, he tucked it behind his duty belt for the moment. BIG,BIG mistake.....
His mind was apparently dealing with the arestee and not thinking about what he was doing with the confiscated pistol.

Afterwords, he was worse off than just 'gimpy'......

Sorry,
gimpy