TWENTYNINE PALMS MAN ACCUSED OF ASSAULTING DEPUTY AFTER A TRAFFIC STOP

A Twentynine Palms man was arrested Monday following an attempted traffic stop in which he allegedly assaulted a deputy. According to a Sheriff’s report, a deputy tried to stop a yellow Ford Mustang just before 6 p.m. near Highway 62 and Mojave Avenue in Twentynine Palms. The driver, subsequently identified as Dennis Morales, 44, refused to pull over and drove to a home in the 6700 block of Estrella Avenue, where the Mustang then crashed into a concrete wall. The deputy says Morales refused to follow commands and began to fight, even after being tased. Dennis Morales was eventually subdued and arrested for investigation of resisting arrest, booked into the Morongo Basin Jail, with his bail set at $50,000.