Restaurant workers found the gun left behind in one of the booths. When the gun's owner came back, a sheriff's deputy was there.
Deputies were called to a restaurant in the 14200 block of U.S. Highway 395 in Adelanto just after 4 a.m. Saturday after workers at the restaurant found a ghost gun that had been left in a booth by a customer.
While the deputy was still at the restaurant, the owner of the gun, Derek Eugene Sampson, came back to get retrieve the weapon. Sampson is a convicted felon, according to San Bernardino County Sheriff's deputies, and therefore is not legally allowed to own a weapon. Sampson was arrested for owning the gun, and was found with methamphetamine and ecstasy on him, according to deputies.Sampson was booked for possession of a firearm and possession of a controlled substance.
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