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DA’s Report

• Danny Ray was charged on Nov. 19 with luring a child.

• Joseph Paul Bermudez was charged on Nov. 18 with embezzlement form older person and unlawful taking of a vehicle.

• Brittany Lee Pryor was charged on Nov. 22 with opening or maintaining of place for unlawful sale, gift or use of controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell, possession of a controlled substance, conspiracy to violate the uniform controlled substance, unlawful use of a controlled substance and child abuse and neglect.

• Dorothea A. Chute was charged on Nov. 18 with high-level trafficking in a schedule I controlled substance, two counts; low-level trafficking in a schedule I controlled substance; offer, attempt or commission of unauthorized act(s) relating to controlled substance; possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell, five counts; unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia.

• Bengie Crawford was charged on Nov. 18 with battery by a prisoner.

• Axel Maximiliano Casas was charged on Nov. 19 with possession of less than an ounce of marijuana, first offense; possession of drug paraphernalia and driving under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance.

• Jessica Marie Segeda was charged on Nov. 19 with possession of drug paraphernalia.

• David Albert Allsop was charged on Nov. 21 with possession of a controlled substance, three counts.

• Katherine Kazzar Alexander was charged on Nov. 21 with theft.

• Bengie Crawford was charged on Nov. 21 with child endangerment and domestic battery.

• Samantha Jaimes Keys was charged on Nov. 21 with theft.

•Nicole Camille Maxwell was charged on Nov. 21 with petit larceny and burglary.

• Nicole Camille Maxwell was charged on Nov. 20 with burglary, taking property from the person of another under circumstances not amounting to robbery and theft.

• Taquoia Porchai Gardner was charged on Nov. 18 with burglary, two counts.

• Christopher Roger Kruse was charged on Nov. 5 with theft and offense involving stolen property.

• Heather Marie Connors was charged on Nov. 5 with theft and offense involving stolen property.

• Nickolas Caleon McGriff was charged on Nov. 21 with offense involving stolen vehicle.

• Abel Murguia-Arambula was charged on Nov. 15 with trafficking in a schedule I controlled substance and unlawful use of a controlled substance.

• Carlos Ibarra Ibarra-Roque was charged on Nov. 19 with driving under the influence of alcohol and driving without a valid license.

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