A 24-year-old Hempstead man was arrested on gun charges at an East Garden City hotel party early Friday morning, Nassau police said.

Robert K. Taylor

Third Precinct officers responded to a report of a man with a gun at a party in room 404 at the La Quinta Inn on Stewart Avenue at 4:55 a.m. Upon arrival they found Robert K. Taylor in possession of a handgun.

He was arrested after it was determined he did not posses a Nassau County Pistol Permit and that the handgun had been reported stolen in Alabama in 2001, according to 3rd Squad detectives.

Taylor was charged with criminal possession of a weapon and criminal possession of stolen property. He will be arraigned at First District Court in Hempstead on Saturday.