(KRON) — The Santa Rosa Police Division (SRPD) mentioned a site visitors cease on Thursday led to the arrest of a 28-year-old Stockton man with a loaded and unregistered Glock 9mm handgun.
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Santa Rosa PD mentioned an officer made the site visitors enforcement cease at 5:36 p.m. whereas patrolling on Airway Drive. The officer mentioned they smelled “freshly burnt marijuana” when approaching the car, then noticed “loose marijuana” on the automotive’s middle console.
Santa Rosa PD mentioned the suspect, later recognized as Marcello Morel, didn’t have a legitimate driver’s license. Police mentioned Marcel was requested to carry out a number of discipline sobriety exams, the place it was decided that he was not impaired.
Nevertheless, police mentioned Marcel was driving “with partially burnt marijuana blunts and numerous open containers of alcohol in the passenger area” of his automotive.
Santa Rosa PD mentioned an extra search of the car uncovered a loaded Glock 9mm handgun and “29 rounds of ammunition” hidden in a backpack on the entrance passenger floorboard. Investigators mentioned it was found the gun was not registered to Morel.
Santa Rosa police mentioned Morel was arrested and booked into Sonoma County Jail for the next prices:
25850(a) PC – Carrying a loaded firearm in public
25400(a)(1) PC – Carrying a hid weapon in a car
25850(c)(6) PC – Carrying a loaded handgun whereas not the registered proprietor
SRPD additionally mentioned within the social submit on X that the division elevated its seizure of illegally possessed firearms final 12 months “by 51 percent by taking 390 firearms off the streets. Of those guns, 124 were privately manufactured firearms commonly known as ‘ghost guns.’ This was a 125% increase in ghost gun seizures over 2023.”
