Man with active warrant attempts to enter Combat Center’s main gate, arrested

A man with an active warrant was arrested while attempting to enter the Marine Base in Twentynine Palms.

On Wednesday (May 22) just before 9 a.m., an unidentified man checked in at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center’s main gate visiting center. The man was found to have an active misdemeanor warrant in Riverside County related to possession of methamphetamine. 

Personnel at the gate advised the man that he would be extradited from San Bernardino County to Riverside County on his active warrant. 

San Bernardino County Sheriff’s deputies were called, and arrested the man. He was booked into the Morongo Basin Jail for extradition to the Riverside Sheriff’s Department.

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