Drugs & Guns Left In View Lead To Arrest: Marin Deputies

TAMALPAIS VALLEY, CA – A Marin County Sheriff's sergeant, who on Tuesday morning was patrolling the rainy streets of Tamalpais Valley, stopped to peer into a parked, unoccupied, "suspicious" vehicle and saw a white substance, that he suspected was drugs, plainly visible, and the handle of a gun sticking out from under a seat, according to authorities.

Marin County Sheriff's Office deputies, believing the driver could be nearby, searched the area to no avail and then formulated a plan to contact the owner of the vehicle to lure him to return. While working on the plan, however, the car's owner, identifed as Frank Deedywoo Garcia-Calloway, 20 of San Pablo, showed up, was detained and eventually arrested, officials said.

During a vehicle search, deputies allegedly recovered a loaded, 9mm Glock 19 with a high-capacity magazine, an AR-15 loaded with armor-piercing rounds in a high-capacity magazine, a box of roughly 100 armor-piercing rounds, "multiple bags" of suspected cocaine, more than an ounce of suspected heroin, approximately one pound of suspected marijuana, "large amounts" of U.S. currency, a digital scale, a window punch tool and several cell phones, the office said.

Garcia-Calloway was booked into the Marin County Jail on charges of suspicion of possession of burglary tools, a controlled substance, a controlled substance for sale, marijuana for sale, transport to sell a controlled substance, carrying a loaded firearm, possession of a controlled substance while armed, possession of a concealed firearm by a minor and possession of a large capacity magazine, the agency said.

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