Marin County sheriff’s deputies arrested a convicted intercourse offender in Novato on allegations of drug and gun crimes.
Daniel Charles Worthen, 59, was booked after investigators searched his trailer on Binford Highway on Thursday. Investigators discovered methamphetamine and marijuana that they suspected Worthen deliberate to promote, in line with an announcement from the sheriff’s division.
Investigators additionally discovered suspected fentanyl, a loaded 9mm gun with no serial quantity, a digital scale and objects stolen from a automobile in San Francisco.
Worthen was booked into Marin County Jail on suspicion of a number of gun and drug felonies and a misdemeanor. He remained in custody Monday in lieu of $15,000 bail.
He beforehand served 4 years in jail for a 1988 conviction for sexual battery, in line with the state’s intercourse offender registry.
Authorities started investigating Worthen final month. On Feb. 23, one other trailer occupant on Binford Highway was discovered lifeless, and investigators suspect he overdosed on fentanyl at Worthen’s trailer a number of days earlier than.
The person who died was Larry Fred Kennedy, 58. His explanation for dying and toxicology outcomes stay pending.
The involvement of medication “has not been excluded,” stated Chief Deputy Coroner Roger Fielding. Kennedy confirmed no traumatic accidents, Fielding stated.