All in a Day’s Work for the SCPD Neighborhood Enforcement
Team (NET). Another felon and another gun off the streets thanks to
their hard work and street savvy.
Last week NET was working a surveillance detail
when... out of the blue, they spotted our suspect Mr. Jeremy Pineda - 32 years old.
Mr. Pineda is known to our officers as someone with a
long criminal history chalked full of felony convictions, including auto theft and
being a felon in possession of a firearm.
He’s a legitimate Probation All Star.
Our officers stopped Mr. Pineda and found he had a
warrant out of Santa Clara County. A
subsequent search of his car found a loaded .45 caliber handgun. Turns out, the handgun was stolen in May
during a residential burglary here in Santa Cruz.
Mr. Pineda was arrested and booked into jail for his
outstanding warrant, and a host of gun charges to include being a felon in
possession of a firearm. Thankfully, the
on-call judge granted our request for a bail increase from $50,000 to
$200,000.
While we were at it, we contacted Mr. Pineda’s female
acquaintance, Ms. Fallon Feurtado – 23 year old.
She too is on probation 2x over for drug
convictions. She was subject to search
as a term of her probation so we obliged and searched her motel room at the
Mission Inn. We found heroin and
paraphernalia in the room. Ms. Feurtado
was booked into jail for violating her probation and drug possession
charges.
