Photo: confiscated from the pair
SANTA ROSA – The car travelling on Brush Creek Road had suspended registration, and on August 31st a deputy with the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office pulled its driver over at 8:35 p.m.
37-year-old Miguel Gonzalez, the driver, started right off being argumentative with the deputy. Other deputies arrived and also talked with the passenger in the vehicle, 30-year-old Nathan Hines.
Hines “was on three counts of probation that included a clause allowing law enforcement to search him and the car.”
However, when the deputies announced their intention to search the car, “both men then became more argumentative.” Even though Hines would not follow the deputies instruction, the pair were finally taken out of their car.
It turns out that the pair had quite a good reason for resisting. Hines had a meth pipe and heroin on his person and the car contained 79 grams of methamphetamine, 22 grams of heroin, and 1 gram of cocaine.
In addition, deputies found $8,100 as well as “supplies commonly used to package and sell drugs, including a scale and baggies.”
Gonzalez was booked for possession of heroin for sale, transportation of heroin for sale and conspiracy.
For his part, Hines was booked on charges of possession of heroin for sale, transportation of heroin for sale, possession of methamphetamine for sale, transportation of methamphetamine for sale, conspiracy, committing a felony while out on bail, and misdemeanor violation of probation.”
Both suspects bailed out on a $50,000 bail the next day.
