Suspects arrested on drug law violations

Deputies on patrol who continue to check out “suspicious vehicles” continue to make drug arrests in the Santa Clarita Valley.

On two separate occasions this past weekend, deputies with the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station ended up arresting people for drug offenses after spotting a vehicle out of place.

In the most recent case, deputies were patrolling the neighborhood near Soledad Canyon Road and Whites Canyon Road in Canyon Country on Sunday morning, when deputies “saw movement in a motorhome parked on a residential street,” Shirley Miller, spokeswoman for the SCV Sheriff’s Station, wrote in her account of the incident which she posted on social media.

“Due to wanting to prevent any possible break-ins and/or theft of property, deputies decided to take a closer look.

“Deputies made contact with a male adult inside, and learned that he was on probation for narcotics and had a warrant in the system for battery,” Miller wrote.

“They also found that the man was in possession of methamphetamine,” she wrote.

A 45-year-old man, described by deputies as a transient, was arrested on suspicion of violating drug laws and on the warrant.

In a separate and unrelated incident, deputies were patrolling the Stevenson Ranch neighborhood near The Old Road in Stevenson Ranch on Saturday morning when they spotted a vehicle parked in an area of a parking lot where they shouldn’t have been parked, Miller wrote and posted online for the SCV Sheriff’s Station.

The deputies made contact with the man and discovered he had a $75,000 warrant for his arrest, she wrote. Deputies arrested the man on suspicion of violating drug laws. They seized an unspecified quantity of methamphetamine and some narcotic paraphernalia during the arrest.