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.
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