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# Suspect arrested for stealing bike, holding baggie of methamphetamines
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/suspect-arrested-for-stealing-bike-holding-baggie-of-methamphetamines/
- Published: 2016-04-22T13:05:02.000Z
- Updated: 2024-12-03T21:45:40.000Z
- Author: Editor
- Tags: Crime, News, Santa Monica, santa monica news, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-06 14:39

On April 16, 2016 at approximately 7:15 a.m.

Officers conducted a bicycle stop for traffic violations. As the suspect, Steve Oscar Gongora, 52, homeless, was stopped, he discarded a small plastic baggie. The baggie contained methamphetamine. Further investigation, revealed possession of a stolen bicycle. Gongora was booked for felony possession of methamphetamine and possession of stolen property. Bail was set at $200,000.

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