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A man was arrested at the Cuyahoga County Justice Center on Wednesday morning after courthouse security officers said they found an Uzi submachine gun, a pistol and several boxes of bullets inside a bag that he brought to the building, a county spokeswoman said.

The 21-year-old man’s mother, who was with him at the time, was also arrested.

The man faces possible felony weapons charges, and his mother, 39, will be charged with complicity, officials said. There is no indication why the man went to the building with the weapons.

The building houses the Common Pleas Court, as well as Cleveland Municipal Court, the city’s housing court, the county jail and the offices of the city and county prosecutor. It also includes the headquarters of Cleveland police and the Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Department.

The man and his mother tried to get into the building about 9 a.m., county spokeswoman Kelly Woodard said in an email. The security officers noted the woman appeared nervous as the two were going through the building’s security checkpoint, Woodard said.

The man set off the metal detector when he went through it. Officers searched a bag that he had placed on a conveyor and found the weapons, Woodard said. A photograph released by the county showed one of the weapons was also outfitted with a silencer.

Officers patted both the man and the woman down and didn’t find any other weapons. The woman then left the building, but sheriff’s deputies tracked her down outside and arrested her, Woodard said.

Multiple Common Pleas judges on the told cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer that they were not notified of the incident until Wednesday afternoon, several hours after the arrest. Administrative Judge Brendan Sheehan said he learned of the arrest “late morning, early afternoon.”

In an email to Justice Center staff sent just before 3 p.m., the court’s administrator, Greg Popovich, said that “no one was in danger” and praised the courthouse security staff, who are employed by the sheriff’s department.