Columbia, CA…From the Tuolumne Sheriff’s Dept…”Yesterday morning, deputies spotted a Ford coupe with expired registration while patrolling the Quail Mine area of Columbia. The driver, 51-year-old Irving Gallego of Columbia is on probation and was found to be in possession of nearly 27 grams of methamphetamine. His passenger, 53-year-old Paul Saldana of Stockton had a glass pipe used to smoke methamphetamine.

Both men were arrested and booked into the Tuolumne County Jail. Saldana was booked for possession of drug paraphernalia and Gallego was booked on charges of possession and transportation of methamphetamine for sale and for committing a felony while being released on bail from a prior drug sales case.”