A felon with a domestic violence restraining order against him was allegedly found in a car with the protected party and a ghost gun.
On Tuesday (January 28) at around 11:30 a.m., County Sheriff’s Deputies stopped a vehicle near the intersection of Twentynine Palms Highway and Split Rock Ave in Twentynine Palms. They identified one of the people in the car as Jacob Sterling, 36, and identified him as a transient, convicted felon, and subject of a restraining order for domestic violence. Deputies say that the person protected by the restraining order was found inside of the car with Sterling, along with guns and ammunition, including an unserialized 9-millimeter home-built pistol, commonly referred to as a “ghost gun,” and drug paraphernalia.
Jacob Sterling was arrested on suspicion of being a felon in possession of a firearm and violating a court order related to domestic violence, and was booked into the Morongo Basin Jail on $50,000 bail.
