The Yolo County District Attorney’s Office is no longer pursuing drug-manufacturing charges filed in connection with an alleged drug-lab raid in South Davis.
A felony count against Christopher Richard Flores, Jonathan Allen Randall and Mitchell Scott Timm was dismissed last week “in the interest of justice,” Chief Deputy District Attorney Jonathan Raven confirmed.
Randall was convicted of a misdemeanor drug possession charge, Raven said.
The trio were among six people arrested on Feb. 11 after Davis police, serving a search warrant in an elder financial abuse case, reported finding the makings for the hallucinogenic drug dimethyltriptolene, or DMT, inside the duplex at 4917 and 4919 El Cemonte Ave.
But resident Doyle Chastain, arrested that day on suspicion of being in the presence of unlawful drug use, later told The Enterprise that the alleged drug ingredients and supplies police seized were items that could be found in any household.
“We never had a lab,” Chastain said. “It was a targeted attack on us.”
Davis police disputed this, describing the El Cemonte property as a “problem house” that had been the source of 25 calls for service over the past year for incidents such as suspected drug activity and city code violations.