Two arrests were made at a suspected Joshua Tree drug lab that saw Sheriff’s Deputies seize 58 guns, explosives and two pounds of methamphetamine.
On Wednesday (February 14), the Morongo Basin Station’s Multi-Enforcement Team investigated the suspected sales of narcotics at a house in the 60000 block of Post Rd in Joshua Tree. A search warrant at the house was executed, and investigators arrested two Joshua Tree men in connection with the investigation.
William Robertson, 67, and George Gladden, 50, were both arrested on suspicion of being felons in possession of firearms, possession of narcotics for sale, and drug manufacturing. They were both booked into the Morongo Basin Jail with bail set at $700,000.
Investigators confiscated 58 firearms, ammunition, approximately 2 pounds of methamphetamine, a clandestine drug lab, explosive devices, and proceeds from illicit narcotic sales. The Sheriff’s Narcotics Division and Bomb and Arson Detail responded to safely remove the clandestine drug lab and explosives.
