SWAT team raids Pocatello home, 8 arrested on drug charges

Top row, from left: Ramona Delatorriente, Joseph Devine, Rick Doss and Rudolph Gonzalez.

Bottom row, from left: Beau Hansen, Hayley Neary, Nelson O'Brien and Kyiona Palacios.

POCATELLO — Eight local residents were arrested early Thursday after the execution of a high-risk search warrant as part of a multi-agency narcotics investigation.

The operation took place at a residence on the 1100 block of East Clark Street and involved the Pocatello Police Department’s SWAT team and investigators with Idaho State Police and the Bannock County Sheriff’s Office, according to police and court records obtained by the Idaho State Journal.

Investigators seized methamphetamine and a substantial amount of drug paraphernalia from the residence. Although the main suspects named in the search warrant were not found, eight people in the home were arrested and charged with one misdemeanor count of frequenting a place where drugs were present.

Those arrested include: Ramona Raquel Delatorriente, 26, of Pocatello; Joseph Anthony Devine, 35, of Colorado; Rick Jorden Ray Doss, 33, of Blackfoot; Rudolph Dario Gonzalez, 58, of Pocatello; Beau Edward Hansen, 42, of Pocatello; Hayley Alexis Neary, 26, of Pocatello; Nelson David O’Brien, 34, of Pocatello; and Kyiona Fey Palacios, 29, of Idaho Falls.

All eight were booked into the Bannock County Jail shortly before 5 a.m. Thursday, according to jail records.

All eight appeared in court for separate arraignment hearings Thursday afternoon. Delatorriente, Devine, Gonzalez, Hansen, O’Brien and Palacios were ordered released on their own recognizance, court records show.

Neary was convicted last month of felony possession of a controlled substance and misdemeanor DUI in connection with an unrelated 2024 incident and was sentenced to four years of felony probation, according to court records. She was assigned a $300 bond following her arraignment Thursday, which she posted and was released. She is due back in court for a felony probation violation hearing April 13.

Hansen was convicted of felony possession of a controlled substance in June 2025 and sentenced to two years of probation in February court records show.

Doss was also arrested on warrants from Bingham and Bannock counties, as well as a non-extraditable warrant out of Colorado, court records show. He was convicted of felony possession of a controlled substance in Bingham County in June 2018 and sentenced to seven years in prison. He was released in March 2025, according to Idaho Department of Correction records.

He was also charged in Bannock County in January with felony possession of a controlled substance, released from jail and failed to appear for his district court arraignment in February. He is currently being held without bond in that case and is set to be arraigned in district court April 20.

Palacios was charged in Bannock County with methamphetamine possession and introduction of contraband into a correctional facility — both felonies — following her December arrest stemming from a stolen phone investigation that led to a drug bust, the Journal reported last year.

She was arraigned on both felony charges in district court last month and released after posting a $25,000 bond.

A misdemeanor frequenting conviction is punishable by up to 90 days in jail and a fine of up to $300.

The investigation that led to Thursday’s search warrant remains active, and police said more serious charges may be forthcoming against some of those arrested.

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kabluee

Why wasn't this addressed long ago!