At 6 a.m. on Thanksgiving morning in 1970, Christy Ruth Walton, then Tallant, was arrested at a residence in the north end of Palm Springs by police who were conducting a dawn raid on a property being used by a suspected burglary gang. Police reported they had discovered a small quantity of drugs and alleged stolen goods in the house. Tallant was arrested and charged with three counts of breaching Health and Safety laws. All charges were dropped against her and another defendant after the Supreme Court of California ruled the police had conducted an illegal raid by enacting the search warrant an hour too early. The police "apparently had been issued just an ordinary “daytime” warrant that was only valid when served between the hours of 7 a.m. and 10 p.m."[15]