After neighbors heard gunshots and a woman screaming, a Yucca Valley man was arrested for investigation into being a felon in possession of weapons and discharging a firearm with negligence.

At around 9:45 p.m. on Thursday (May 30,) neighbors in the Yucca Mesa area called 911 regarding sounds of gunshots and people yelling. 

Deputies responded to a house in the 58000 block of Buena Vista Drive in Yucca Valley. They announced their presence via PA, and they said that the people in the house were not cooperative.

Deputies say that a firearm was thrown out of the house and into the desert, at which point they were able to move children and a victim out of the house. Two people were detained in the incident, including Jeremy Montez-Flowers, 35, who has been convicted of a violent felony. 

Inside the house, deputies report finding nine .45 caliber rounds.

Jeremy Montez-Flowers was arrested on suspicion of making threats and discharging a firearm with negligence. He is facing additional felony charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm. He was booked into the West Valley Detention Center where he is being held on $150,000 bail. 

The Morongo Valley Community Services District Board of Directors will be holding a special 6 PM meeting tonight in Covington Park’s multipurpose room. 

The sole item on the meeting’s agenda is a request from a local road improvement community group seeking to waive fees for use of the multipurpose room for the road improvement group’s next ten meetings. In exchange, the road improvement group is offering to paint the interior of the multipurpose room. It’s recommended the Board discuss, review, and approve this exchange of meeting space for labor.

Following this open session, the Board will adjourn to closed session for the General Manager’s performance evaluation. 

Free food will be distributed today by the San Bernardino County Community Action Partnership. Food will be available at Pacific Clinics, located at 56020 Sante Fe Trail, Suite M, in Yucca Valley today from 3 PM to 4 PM.

A Twentynine Palms man was arrested this week on suspicion of shooting at a dirt bike rider in January.

In January, deputies assigned to the Morongo Basin Sheriff’s Station responded to a shooting call on South Amboy Road in the City of Twentynine Palms. The victim told deputies he was riding his dirtbike in the desert area when an unknown male suspect fired two shots at him. At the time of the report, deputies did not have any leads and the investigation was reassigned to investigators within Detective Bureau. 

In May , detectives discovered critical leads regarding this violent assault, identified a suspect, John Gonzales, 67, a convicted felon. Detectives conducted a search warrant at his home in the 3300 block of Amboy Road. where they say they recovered 23 firearms, including a short barreled shotgun, several thousand rounds of ammunition, firearm parts, firearm manufacturing parts , high-capacity magazines, and body armor. 

John Gonzales was arrested for investigation into assault with a Firearm being Convicted Felon in Possession of a Firearm, and was booked at the West Valley Detention Center with bail  set at $40,000

The Twentynine Palms man alleged to have led a violent pursuit through the Morongo Basin is facing elevated charges of murder after his wife died. 

On Tuesday night, Brent Soster is reported to have led a pursuit beginning in Needles and through Twentynine Palms and Joshua Tree. A suspect in the attempted murder of his wife, deputies say Brent Soster, 43, led a pursuit along Twentynine Palms Highway during which he launched smoke grenades and fired at county Sheriff’s vehicles, including a helicopter. Deputies say they used lethal force to end the pursuit, and while the nature of the force has not been reported, Soster is alive, and was taken into custody by the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department.

The Mohave Sheriff’s Department reports that, since Soster had been taken into custody, the victim, who they say is the suspect’s wife and identified as Amber Soster, 43, of Kingman, succumbed to what they described as gunshot injuries. 

Brent Soster is being arraigned today in San Bernardino County on five charges of attempted murder, several charges of being a felon in possession of firearms, body armor, and evasion of a law enforcement officer, with enhancements for previous convictions. He is expected to be extradited to Mohave County for charges of murder. 

Bystanders say a Twentynine Palms man is alleged to have attempted to drive over one of the people who intervened to stop him from assaulting a transient in a parking lot.

On Thursday (May 30) at approximately 10:20 p.m., a witness and their daughter-in-law living near the Rite Aid in Twentynine Palms say they witnessed a man kicking a transient in the store’s parking lot. The witness and her daughter-in-law called 911 and then attempted to intervene in the altercation.

The witness said that the alleged attacker, identified as Kevin Lawson, a 34 year-old resident of Twentynine Palms, got into a pick-up truck and sped away, then returned to the parking lot and attempted to drive into the daughter-in-law.

Deputies arrived to the parking lot, spoke with the witness, and left to search the area for Lawson. While they were away, deputies say Lawson returned to the parking lot, and confronted the witnesses. In an attempt to prevent Lawson from fleeing a second time, the witness got into the bed of Lawson’s pick-up truck.

While in the truck, the witness called 911 again, and reported their location, saying they then jumped out of the truck, and filmed Lawson driving away.

Deputies recognized Lawson from the video footage, and contacted him at his home in the 6000 block of Desert Knoll Ave.

Kevin Lawson was arrested for investigation into assault with a deadly weapon and driving with a suspended license, and is being held on $65000 bail.