BAKERSFIELD — A 58-year-old man was arrested on Thursday after authorities discovered large amounts of heroin suspected being sold from a residence in central Bakersfield.
Vernon Taylor was booked into the Kern County Jail’s Central Receiving Facility on one count of sales of a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance, maintaining a residence for the purpose of narcotics sales, possession of narcotics paraphernalia and felon in possession of a stun gun.
According to the Kern County Sheriff’s Office, Taylor was taken into custody after detectives from the Kern Narcotics Enforcement Team (KNET), California Multi-Jurisdictional Methamphetamine Enforcement Team (Cal-MMET), and Sheriff’s Office Major Violators Unit (MVU) served a narcotics search warrant at a residence located in the 1100 block of East 10th Street in Bakersfield on April 10, 2014.
During their search, officers said they located approximately 40 grams of suspected heroin, evidence that heroin was being sold from the home and a stun gun.
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