Trial court erred by imposing criminal laboratory analysis fee under Health and Safety Code section 11372.5 based on defendant’s conviction for possession of a controlled substance while armed with a firearm (Health & Saf. Code, § 11370.1). Myles pleaded no contest to a charge of cocaine possession while armed with a firearm in violation of section 11370.1. The trial court orally imposed a $50 crime lab analysis fee. He appealed. Held: Fee reversed. Section 11372.5, subdivision (a) provides that a $50 criminal laboratory analysis fee shall be imposed for certain offenses. The only offenses for which this fee may be imposed are those enumerated in the statute. Although possession of a controlled substance while armed with a firearm is a drug offense, it is not one of the offenses enumerated in section 11372.5. Thus, the trial court erred in imposing the crime lab analysis fee for this offense.

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