On October 22, 2020, at 10:15 p.m., a Kern County Sheriff's Office deputy assigned to the Ridgecrest Substation made a traffic enforcement stop on a vehicle at the intersection of North Brown Road and Inyokern Road for a traffic violation. During the traffic stop the driver, CHARLES HOLMES was found to be in possession of narcotics paraphernalia and placed under arrest.
While searching the vehicle deputies located a loaded SKS style rifle, several high capacity magazines, body armor, and a hand grenade. HOLMES was discovered to be a convicted felon and was prohibited from possessing the firearms, ammunition, body armor, and hand grenade. The Kern County Sheriff's Office Bomb Squad responded to the scene and seized the hand grenade and disposed of the hand grenade. HOLMES was taken to the Mojave Jail and booked in on multiple weapons violations, narcotics violations and other violations.
