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The gun, which resembles a Beretta-style handgun was found along a ditch line about a half-mile east of Peck by a man mowing his lawn, said Sanilac County Sheriff's Detective Sgt. Jim Johnson.

The weapon will be sent to the state police crime lab for analysis.

On June 27, deputies received a complaint from a woman claiming a man held a gun to her head after she tried to get a cell phone from her car in Peck.

The alleged incident occurred about an hour after several men allegedly attempted to enter her apartment looking for a 16-year-old girl. When the woman told a male companion in the apartment about the gun, he allegedly fired a shotgun to scare them, and shattered the rear window in a Toyota. When police stopped the car that evening, five young men from the Port Huron area denied having a gun and a search of the vehicle and area by police failed to turn up a weapon.

Johnson said the recovered weapon "adds a little credibility" to the woman's complaint.

The weapon was found July 4, in an area that was last mowed the day before the alleged incident, and in the path taken by the men when they left Peck.