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San Mateo Traffic Stop Yields Arrest, Converted Gun and Drugs, Police Say

Officers say a probable-cause search uncovered a modified Glock plus suspected narcotics, leading to the booking of an 18-year-old from Belmont.

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.