Police: Two arrested in Petaluma with guns and drugs

Petaluma police arrested two Rohnert Park residents suspected of weapons and drug charges, including having a stolen shotgun and a loaded handgun, police reported.

The two had been sleeping Sunday morning in a vehicle parked in the East Washington Place shopping center on Kenilworth Drive when an officer checked on the pair and saw drug paraphernalia inside the car, police said in a news release. The officer ordered them out of the car and found Martin Stra-Smith, 37, had been to jail recently and was out on bail on a gun charge and Rebecca Rodriguez, 21, was wanted on a felony arrest warrant. A search of the vehicle turned up the stolen shotgun out of Humboldt County, a loaded pistol, metal knuckles, a collapsible baton and what appeared to be methamphetamine, police said.

Officers arrested Rodriguez on the warrant and suspicion of having the baton and metal knuckles. Stra-Smith was arrested on several charges including suspicion of committing a felony while on bail, having the loaded gun in public, having a gun in violation of court restrictions and having drugs.

They were booked into the Sonoma County Jail and both remained in custody Monday. Her bail was $10,000 and Stra-Smith’s was $25,000.

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