A Twentynine Palms registered sex offender was arrested earlier this month, accused of not registering his address as required by law. According to a Sheriff’s report, Deputy Dennis Tollefson stopped Lawrence Navarette, 56, who was riding a bicycle without proper lighting, about 10 p.m. November 9 near Cholla Avenue and Highway 62. During a search of Navarette, Tollefson discovered methamphetamine in Navarette’s shirt pocket. Tollefson also determined that Navarette was a convicted sex offender from Moreno Valley who had been living on the streets of Twentynine Palms for about four months. State law requires transient sex offenders to register every 30 days with their local law enforcement agency. Lawrence Navarette was arrested for investigation of failing to register as a sex offender, booked into the Morongo Basin Jail, with his bail set at $250,000.
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If anyone has any information about criminal activities Lawrence Navarette may have been involved in, please call the Sheriff’s Department at 760-366-4175.
