An off-duty Border Patrol agent was arrested in Oceanside on suspicion of possessing heroin and an illegal rifle after officers found him asleep in a pickup Sunday, police and Border Patrol officials said.

Brandon Herrera, 37, was arrested about 8:45 a.m. Sunday outside an apartment complex at Los Arbolitos Boulevard and Fredricks Avenue, Oceanside police spokesman Tom Bussey said.

Police had been patrolling the complex since early April after getting a report about a suspicious man loitering near a trash bin in the complex’s parking lot.

Officers went to the complex several times. They had been told a Ford truck was parked near the bin, but they found a motorcycle parked in the spot that was registered to Herrera, Bussey said.

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