YUCCA VALLEY MAN CONNECTED TO HONEY OIL LAB ARRESTED

A Yucca Valley man who was wanted for having a honey oil lab was arrested Friday at his home. According to a Sheriff’s press release, deputies had gone to a home in the 7700 block of Balsa Avenue October 28 with a search warrant, where they located a make-shift lab to manufacture “honey oil,” a concentrated form of marijuana. The resident, Benito Cardenas, 41, was not at home at the time of the search. The District Attorney’s office issued a warrant for Cardenas’ arrest for having a THC extraction lab, and on Friday, November 6, deputies returned to Cardenas’ home on Balsa Avenue about noon where they found him in his front yard and arrested him without incident. Benito Cardenas was booked at the Morongo Basin Jail with his bail set at $500,000.