Four Marines were arrested early Sunday morning after police say they were involved in a bar fight, then fired shots outside a Twentynine Palms bar.
Sheriff’s deputies were called to the Break N’ Run Bar on Twentynine Palms Highway at 1:31 am due to a fight, reports Z107.7. Before the police arrived, four men drove away in a silver 4-door Nissan. Witnesses told police that one of the passengers of the car fired four shots from a handgun out the window as they drove away.
The car was spotted by a deputy a short distance away in Denny’s parking lot. The four occupants of the car were detained and the Nissan was searched, with police finding two semi automatic handguns inside the vehicle.
Michael Jolly was arrested for negligent discharge of a firearm. Two other passengers, Corderous Mahone and Craig Chapman, along with driver Richard Harris, were arrested for being accessories to a felony.
Jolly, 24, Harris, 26, Mahone, 26, and Craig Chapman, 24 are all Marines stationed at the Twentynine Palms Marine Base.
