(Clarinda, Iowa) – A search warrant executed Thursday evening at an apartment in Clarinda resulted in the arrest of two people on drug and child endangerment charges. Clarinda Police Chief Keith Brothers reports his officers executed a search warrant at an apartment located at 800 W. Tarkio Street. Officers seized methamphetamine and marijuana. Taken into custody was 28-year-old Richard Daniel Rodriguez and 26-year-old Mileena Jade Villanueva, both of Clarinda.

Rodriguez was arrested for felony distribution of methamphetamine, providing a place for gathering for the use of controlled substances, failure to have a drug tax stamp and child endangerment. Villanueva was arrested for child endangerment and providing a place for gathering for the use of controlled substances. Rodriguez and Villaneueva Gray are currently in custody at the Page County Jail pending formal charging decisions by the Page County Attorney’s Office.

A five-month-old child was taken into protective custody at the home and placed in the care of the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services.

“All defendants are presumed innocent under our system of criminal justice until found guilty in a court of law.”