The Brief
- Santa Rosa Police Department officers stopped a car for illegal window tinting.
- During a search of the car, a police canine was alerted to the dashboard area near the air conditioner and radio controls.
- Officers searched the vehicle further and found an open space behind the controls that allegedly contained a loaded and unregistered handgun.
SANTA ROSA, Calif. – Two men were arrested in Santa Rosa on Friday after a police dog sniffed out a hidden compartment in their car that allegedly contained an unregistered gun.
Santa Rosa Police Department officers on patrol in the area of Santa Rosa and Yolanda avenues about 6:15 p.m. on Friday stopped a car for illegal window tinting, according to a department statement.
The driver and the passenger in the vehicles – identified as 19-year-old Luis Roque and 37-year-old Jose Quiroz respectively – were recognized by officers as “criminal street gang participants,” and that Quiroz was on parole, police said.…