One felon and one person with an active felony warrant were arrested for suspicion of possessing a firearm yesterday during a traffic stop in Twentynine Palms.
At around 1:15 p.m. on Wednesday (January 4), a San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Deputy conducted a vehicle check near Smoke Tree Avenue and Civic Center Dr. The two people in the vehicle were identified as James Santiful III, a 32 year-old resident of Twentynine Palms, a convicted felon, and Winter Loring, a 20 year-old resident of Twentynine Palms, who has an active felony warrant for robbery.
Deputies say that Santiful was carrying a loaded 9mm handgun. Santiful was arrested for suspicion of being a felon in possession of a firearm and felon in possession of ammunition. Loring was arrested for the existing warrant.
Both Loring and Santiful were booked into the Morongo Basin Jail. Loring is being held on a no bail warrant and Santiful is being held on $130,000 bail.
