Meth suspects detained by force One man...

Meth suspects detained by force

One man had to be subdued with two taser darts, and another was

tackled after police showed up at their Canyon Acres home at around

midnight Oct. 17 to raid their house.

Laguna Beach police went to the house in the 400 block after

receiving a call from a process server with the Orange County

Sheriff’s Department saying that he suspected that a methamphetamine

lab was inside. The server said his eyes had watered, his heart had

raced and his skin had become irritated just from standing at the

front door.

Robert Delamora, 32, and Kirt Storm, 46, tried to flee out of two

rear windows after police knocked on the door, Sgt. Darin Lenyi said,

but four officers were waiting for them in the backyard.

Two officers shot Delamora with taser darts after he reportedly

charged at them. Storm was secured after a brief struggle, Lenyi

said.

There was no meth lab in the house, but both men had

methamphetamine on them, Lenyi said.

Delamora was arrested on a no-bail warrant for possession of

dangerous drugs and new charges on suspicion of possessing

methamphetamine, drug paraphernalia and stolen property and resisting

arrest. Storm was arrested on suspicion of possessing methamphetamine

and resisting arrest.

Striker caught making a deal

Police arrested a man driving a construction truck on suspicion of

selling marijuana after seeing him make an apparent drug exchange

with a striker at Ralphs on Thursday.

Sgt. Guy Miller was on routine patrol at about 10:15 a.m. when he

saw the truck stop on Glenneyre Street in front of Ralphs. A man

picketing then approached the vehicle. Miller saw them make an

exchange and then stopped the truck, which was being driven by

30-year-old Vetea Hiro Teiva.

“The guy was still holding his picket sign when he made his

purchase,” Sgt. Greg Bartz said.

Police took no action against the suspected buyer, who was

carrying about a gram of marijuana. Police plan to only use him as a

witness against Teiva, who is being held on $10,000 bail.

Teiva’s truck, bearing the name of a local construction company,

had scales, baggies, seeds and paraphernalia inside, but no

marijuana.

“It must have been his last delivery of the day,” Bartz said.

Helicopter sighting leads to arrest

Police seized five guns from a resident who claimed a helicopter

had knocked the antenna off his roof on Sunday, and then arrested him

on suspicion of being drunk in public when he showed up at the police

station a few hours later to retrieve them.

John Graves called police from his home in the 1400 block of

Catalina Street at 3:28 p.m. and belligerently complained to officers

about a low-flying helicopter, Sgt. Darin Lenyi said. Two guns were

sitting on the table when police arrived, which turned out to be

loaded.

Police seized Graves’ guns but didn’t arrest him. They told him he

could pick them up from the police station after he sobered up.

Graves showed up at the station at 7:52 p.m. and police arrested

him. Graves said he had walked to the station, though his car was

outside, but police only arrested him on suspicion of being drunk in

public because they didn’t catch him driving, Lenyi said.