Overview
- Officers stopped a vehicle near Delaware Street and 25th Avenue around 1:37 p.m. Friday for expired registration and illegal window tint.
- An open tequila bottle and the smell of marijuana prompted a probable-cause search of the car, according to police.
- A black backpack in the back seat contained a Glock with a multi-burst trigger, an extended magazine, and a round chambered, which police described as converted into a machine gun.
- The backpack also held two scales, packaging materials, psilocybin mushrooms, 17 oxycodone pills, and marijuana.
- Driver Carron Patterson, 18, of Belmont, was arrested, booked into San Mateo County Jail, and faces multiple weapons and drug charges as SMPD highlighted its proactive enforcement efforts.