A 27-year-old man was behind bars Friday for allegedly being in possession of firearms, ammunition and suspected Fentanyl in Ripley, south of Blythe.
Roshawn Antoine Vaughn of Ripley was arrested on suspicion of possessing Fentanyl with intent to sell, possessing narcotics while armed, possessing a firearm, possessing a stolen firearm, possessing a short-barreled shotgun and child endangerment, according to Sgt. Bryan Whitley of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department.
Whitley said that deputies from the Colorado River Station’s Special Enforcement Team were conducting a probation search in the 24500 block of School Road in an unincorporated area of Riverside County.
It’s alleged that Vaughn was in possession of two sawed-off shotguns, a stolen semi-automatic Ruger .38-caliber pistol, several boxes of ammunition and 250 suspected Fentanyl pills, according to Whitley.
He was arrested and booked into the John J. Benoit Detention Center in Indio, where he remains held on $500,000 bail, according to inmate records.