NEEDLES—The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, utilizing officers drawn primarily from its Colorado River Station and its Inter-Regional Narcotics Enforcement Team, assisted by the San Bernardino County Probation Department, arrested 20 Needles residents during a series of search and arrest warrant executions throughout the 31.08-square mile city on March 7.
The joint operation utilized 33 law enforcement personnel divided into three teams, which executed ten search warrants. The 20 subjects – eleven men and nine women – taken into custody were arrested for various crimes, including maintaining a residence for the use of narcotics, possession of narcotics, possession of stolen property, active felony warrants, and possession of manufacturing equipment to make fraudulent credit cards.
“This operation was conducted to combat the ongoing battle of violent crimes occurring in the city, coupled with the sales, distribution, and use of fentanyl, which is a known narcotic that is consuming lives daily in our community,” according to the sheriff’s department.
Those arrested included, Nicholas Monk, 40-years old, a resident of Needles; Guadalupe Lozano, 34-years old, a resident of Needles; Johanna Baumgartner, 22-years old, a resident of Needles; Juan Hernandez, 27-years old, a resident of Needles; Crystal Munoz, 37-years old, a resident of Needles; Edward Dock, 43-years old, a resident of Needles; Rabecka Motz, 34-years old, a resident of Needles; Theodore Muniz, 37-years old, a resident of Needles; April Craig, 31-years old, a resident of Needles; Mariah Mills, 31-years old, a resident of Needles; Darrian Myatt, 31-years old, a resident of Needles; Charles Brown, 29-years old, a resident of Needles; Michael Fulmar, 33-years old, a resident of Needles; Simon Garcia, 35-years old, a resident of Needles; Aaron Hernandez, 30-years old, a resident of Needles; Mark Franco, 46-years old, a resident of Needles; Rachael Reyes, 43-years old, a resident of Needles; Pete Jewell, 42-years old, a resident of Needles; Heather Jewell, 48-years old, a resident of Needles; and Zabrina Longacre, 42-years old, a resident of Needles.
-Mark Gutglueck