A Yucca Valley man arrested for suspected vandalism was also identified as the suspect in a domestic violence incident from July.
On Sunday (October 6) at around 6:30 p.m., Sheriff’s deputies from the Morongo Basin Station responded to a call of malicious mischief or vandalism in the 64100 block of Sunflower Rd in Joshua Tree.
There, they contacted a suspect in the vandalism, Nekoda Pardee, a 27 year-old resident of Yucca Valley. Pardee was also identified as the suspect in a domestic violence incident that occurred on July 6.
The status of the victim was not immediately available.
Nekoda Pardee was arrested on suspicion of inflicting corporal injury on a spouse or date, assault with a deadly weapon, false imprisonment, attempting to dissuade a witness and felony vandalism, and he is being held without bail.
Pardee pled not guilty to six felony charges at an arraignment in San Bernardino County Superior Court yesterday.
Pardee was arrested on suspicion of domestic assault in May of 2017.
