Crime & Safety
Loaded 'Ghost Gun,' Cocaine Found On 2 Men Arrested In Marin County Shopping Center Parking Lot: Police
One suspect had an outstanding warrant and was carrying an untraceable firearm with no serial number, police said.
NOVATO, CA — Two Santa Rosa men were arrested early Sunday after Novato police responded to a tip about people selling cocaine in a shopping center parking lot and found one suspect carrying a loaded ghost gun, authorities said.
Officers were dispatched around 1:30 a.m. to the Novato Fair Shopping Center following a report of two men offering cocaine for sale from a car that was leaving the area.
A search of the car turned up several bags of cocaine packaged for sale on one passenger, identified as Cory Hernandez Padilla, 18. A second passenger, Lamar Perryman, 23, who had an outstanding arrest warrant, was found carrying a loaded firearm with no serial number.
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Padilla was booked into Marin County Jail on suspicion of possession of cocaine for sale, and Perryman was booked on the outstanding warrant, felon in possession of a loaded firearm, and possession of a firearm with no serial number, police said.
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