The American Canyon Police Department reported an arrest made on Thursday night involving a driver under the influence and the discovery of an illegal firearm. A Hyundai Elantra, weaving erratically down Highway 29, instigated the stop by authorities, which led to a sequence of events that resulted in two Fairfield men being stranded behind bars.
Around 11 p.m. that evening, the police noticed the vehicle making "several abrupt and unsafe lane changes," this led them to suspect the driver's sobriety. This suspicion would soon find confirmation upon a whiff of freshly burnt marijuana and a view of the substance comfortably resting within the confines of the car's interior, as detailed by American Canyon Police in a press release from the city's communication platform.
The driver, 30-year-old Jose Canjura, and his passenger, 29-year-old Paul Perkins, both residents of Fairfield, were subjected to a field sobriety test, which Canjura failed, and a subsequent search by Police K-9 Brick, who signaled the presence of illicit items in the vehicle, a gesture not taken lightly by the law enforcement officials present at the scene.
Searching the car, officers discovered a loaded, unregistered Glock 43 firearm. They suspected narcotics hidden beneath the passenger seat, ensuring that what began as a routine traffic stop would culminate in a more serious legal skirmish. Both Canjura and Perkins found themselves booked into the county jail, facing felony charges in connection to the possession of the firearm, with Canjura shouldering additional charges for his impaired driving, as confirmed by the American Canyon Police press release.
