{"id":462753,"date":"2026-09-13T19:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T19:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/462753\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T19:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T19:12:08","slug":"waymo-alerts-police-after-ghost-gun-found-in-sf-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/462753\/","title":{"rendered":"Waymo alerts police after ghost gun found in SF car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two youths riding in a driverless vehicle were arrested after the operators alerted authorities to an assault rifle in the vehicle, California police said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers found an illegal \u201cghost gun\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SFPD\/posts\/pfbid0yyfDEZT2ef3XK6JDoaJCu6WpVyw6JKfEe558Eeev8AWMT6tU8SMNPaa7DGpKbTv8l\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">inside the vehicle<\/a>, along with marijuana and mace spray, San Francisco police said in a Thursday news release.<\/p>\n<p>The company operating the vehicle notified police of the firearm just before 4 a.m. Sept. 3 in the Richmond neighborhood, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Waymo confirmed that it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-09-12\/juveniles-riding-in-waymo-arrested-after-police-find-ghost-gun\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the company involved<\/a>, the Los Angeles Times said.<\/p>\n<p>When employees became aware <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/waymo-arrest-rifle-sfpd-22427672.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">of the firearm<\/a>, they pulled the vehicle to the side of the road and notified police, Waymo officials told SF Gate.<\/p>\n<p>The boy and girl inside were arrested on suspicion of illegally possessing a firearm, police said in the release. Officers did not release their names because they are juveniles.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco police ask anyone with information to call 415-575-4444. Tips may be made anonymously.<\/p>\n<p> Loading\u2026<\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/profile\/218174905\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Don Sweeney<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n<p>            Don Sweeney has been a newspaper reporter and editor in California for more than 35 years. He is a service reporter based at The Sacramento Bee.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two youths riding in a driverless vehicle were arrested after the operators alerted authorities to an assault rifle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-462753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}