Police arrested and charged a 28-year-old Mountain View man with numerous firearms and drug offenses stemming from an alleged incident Friday morning at a Hawaiian Paradise Park home.
Police arrested and charged a 28-year-old Mountain View man with numerous firearms and drug offenses stemming from an alleged incident Friday morning at a Hawaiian Paradise Park home.
The suspect was identified as Joshua Rylan Wamar De Ponte.
Police say officers responded shortly after 7 a.m. Friday to a 31st Avenue residence in HPP after Wamar De Ponte called them and reported he was threatened by two men. Police said responding officers saw a sawed-off shotgun on the floor of his vehicle and arrested him.
According to police, a woman at the home told officers she was a former girlfriend of Wamar De Ponte and that he arrived at the house that morning and threatened her and others with a rifle.
A search warrant on the vehicle turned up the shotgun, which was reported stolen, almost 4 grams of methamphetamine and numerous prescription pills, police said.
Wamar De Ponte was charged with four firearms offenses, two counts of terroristic threatening, plus first-degree theft, methamphetamine possession and fourth-degree promotion of a harmful drug.
His bail was set at $106,000.
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