Healdsburg Woman Arrested for Alleged Child Neglect, Narcotics Possession
HEALDSBURG, CA — Sonoma County authorities have reportedly arrested an individual for alleged narcotics sales and child neglect.
According to a press release by the Healdsburg Police Department, the department received a concerned report on Wednesday, Feb. 12, about a child whose parent had failed to pick them up multiple times once they had been dropped off from school.
Police conducted a welfare check of the child and allegedly found suspected methamphetamine, cannabis, and a scale in the vehicle of the child’s mother, identified as 33-year-old Carina Gonzales Rivas.
Rivas was taken into custody.
During the booking process, officers reportedly found contraband concealed on the Rivas’s body including suspected methamphetamine, cocaine, lighters, vape pens, car keys, and over $1,000 in U.S. and Mexican currency.
Rivas was ultimately booked on suspicion of the possession and transportation of narcotics for sale, smuggling controlled substances into a jail facility, and child neglect.
