The Sheriff’s Department Marijuana Enforcement Team has been busy lately in the Morongo Basin. On Wednesday, deputies served seven search warrants in the Desert Heights area of Twentynine Palms. Deputies seized 3,516 marijuana plants at illegal grow facilities in the 1400 block of Jackrabbit Trail; two grows in the 67600 block of Winters Road; 66700 block of Mars Road, and 67100, 66600, and 66900 blocks of Daisy Road. No suspects were contacted at any of the sites.
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Sedona Red Rock High School senior Matt Capozzi completes an inside-the-park home run by running into Desert Heights Prep Academy catcher Landyn Miller during the Scorpions’ game against the Yote on Tuesday, April 13. Sedona, which had lost two games in a row by lopsided finals, got back in the win column with an 11-8 victory. Photo by David Jolkovski/Larson Newspapers
Coming off of consecutive lopsided losses, Sedona Red Rock High School’s baseball team needed a good game against Desert Heights Prep Academy on Tuesday, April 13 to break its funk. The SRRHS team got the necessary result.
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Sedona Red Rock High School senior pitcher Dakota Farrar delivers a pitch in the Scorpions’ game against Camp Verde on Monday, April 5. The Sedona team struggled all game and lost to the Cowboys, 16-1. The Scorpions are now 3-2 on the season. All five games have ended after five innings via the 10-run rule. Photo by David Jolkovski/Larson Newspapers
consistent theme for Sedona Red Rock High School’s baseball team over the first five games of the season. Every game has been either a lopsided win or loss. Unfortunately for the Scorpions, the game against Camp Verde on Monday, April 5, fell into the latter category.
The Morongo Basin Municipal Advisory Council will gather online tonight (March 8) for its first meeting since November. Reporter Heather Clisby has the details …
With the disruption of COVID-19 barring most public in-person meetings, the Morongo Basin Municipal Advisory Council (MAC) will host tonight’s (March 8) meeting via Zoom.
Supervisor Dawn Rowe will attend to administer the swearing in of all MAC Board members. The meeting will also include elections for MAC Council positions of Chair, Co-Chair and Secretary.
The evening will feature public safety reports from local fire and law enforcement. The agenda also includes a Chairman’s Report as well as individual reports from each of the nine non-incorporated regions: Copper Mountain Mesa, Desert Heights, Flamingo Heights, Joshua Tree, Landers, Morongo Valley, Pioneertown, Wonder Valley, and Yucca Mesa.
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Sedona Red Rock High School’s girls basketball team entered its home gym for a game against Desert Heights Prep on Wednesday, Feb. 17, with a perfect record. The Scorpions left the gym the same way.
Playing for the second consecutive night, the SRRHS attack wasn’t always as crisp as it’s been for much of the season. But the end result was a familiar one in that Sedona not only won, but won decisively, finishing on the right end of a 61-26 final score.
“We tried our hardest — we know that this wasn’t our best game,” sophomore guard Mayra Parra-Landaverde said. “Even though we missed a lot of shots and did some bad stuff, we tried our hardest and pushed through the pain from the last game.”
Nearly nine pounds of marijuana, and more than 2600 marijuana plants were seized in multiple raids in the Desert Heights neighborhood of Twentynine Palms Wednesday morning. The Sheriff’s Department had received numerous complaints about large, outdoor illegal marijuana grows in the area, and about 9 a.m. Wednesday, investigators from the Marijuana Enforcement Team served four search warrants on locations in the area; they seized 8.9 pounds of processed marijuana and 2,665 marijuana plants. While serving the search warrants, deputies found a hidden bunker that had been dug into the ground; inside were two men, Victor Hipolito-Estrada, 20, and Jose Rico-Garcia, 35, both of Mexico. Deputies arrested Hipolito-Estrada, Rico-Garcia; and Alexis Frias, 34, of Mendocino, for investigation of cultivation of cannabis. Victor Hipolito-Estrada, Jose Rico-Garcia, and Alexis Frias were booked into the Morongo Basin Jail, cited and released.