Atascadero felon arrested on drug and gun charges
May 6, 2021
Police arrested a 27-year-old felon in Atascadero Tuesday on multiple drug and weapons charges after spotting the man looking into a parked car in the Motel 6 parking lot on El Camino Real.
Shortly after 2 a.m., officers watched as the man appeared to conceal something in his waistband. Officers searched Manuel Roy Catron Jr. and found a fixed blade knife and a .40 caliber pistol concealed under his shirt.
While searching Catron, officers also found three additional fixed blade knives, a switchblade, a baggie of suspected methamphetamine, a baggie of suspected heroin and a baggie containing pills that Catron identified as Xanax.