Last Friday’s traffic stop in San Carlos went from routine to loaded when San Mateo police say they pulled a ghost gun from a diaper bag and arrested a couple on gun and drug charges, with two kids in the SUV. Yesterday, officers were working a separate hit-and-run at Monte Diablo Avenue and North San Mateo Drive that left a scooter rider with a four-inch gash to the head and ended with an arrest in the SFO employee lot.
San Mateo’s Crime Reduction Unit stopped the SUV for lane deviation near U.S.-101 at the Hillsdale Boulevard exit and, during the contact, officers reported finding drugs and a bullet in a small bag along with a loaded, unserialized, and unregistered firearm with a threaded barrel tucked inside a diaper bag that was accessible to 25-year-old Fremont resident Hector Gonzalez Barajas. Barajas was booked on multiple gun charges, including possession of a firearm without a serial number, carrying a concealed weapon in a vehicle, carrying a loaded firearm not registered to the owner, and possession of an assault weapon. Police say 35-year-old San Mateo resident Laura Aguilar was arrested on related drug and firearms counts. Both were booked into the San Mateo County Jail, and officers removed two children from the vehicle, noting that one child was not restrained in a child safety seat, according to a press release via the San Mateo Police Department.
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