Two people were arrested Tuesday night in Twentynine Palms after a man said he was threatened with a gun. About 8 p.m., a man called deputies to say that Christopher Nunley, 38, was armed with a gun and waiting for him outside the Rite-Aid store in the 72200 block of Highway 62 in Twentynine Palms. The caller said he had been in an argument with Nunley a week or two earlier and Nunley was sitting in his car with his girlfriend in the drugstore parking lot and was waiting for him to come out. When deputies arrived, they found a loaded handgun in the car with Nunley, who admitted he knew the gun was in his car and that he had touched it. However, Nunley denied threatening the victim. Christopher Nunley, who has convictions for spouse abuse, drug possession, attempted extortion, burglary, battery, and possession of a controlled substance in jail, was arrested for investigation of being a felon in possession of a firearm and for violating the terms of his parole; Nunley was booked into the Morongo Basin Jail, with his bail set at $50,000. Deputies also found items in the car that had been stolen from the Rite-Aid store; the woman with Nunley was arrested for investigation of misdemeanor petty theft, cited, and released.
