MENIFEE: No charges for Menifee man accused of indecent exposure, annoying minor

MENIFEE — A man arrested near a middle school and popular Menifee sports park Wednesday morning after allegedly exposing himself to a child was not charged in court today and was released without charges related to the incident.

In spite of being released without charges from Wednesday’s incident and arrest, the man, Ra-Id Shakir William Debose, 25, of Menifee, remains in custody after he pleaded guilty today to charges of trespassing and violating the terms of his probation from an unrelated 2016 arrest.

In that incident two years ago, Debose was arrested after trespassing at a Menifee Jack In The Box restaurant after being ordered by a judge to stay off the business’s property. The judge ordered the stipulation after Debose pleaded guilty in a July, 2015 case involving the battery of two of the fast-food restaurant’s employees.

The restaurant sits barely a mile and a half from where Debose was arrested Wednesday.

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Deputies arrested Debose the morning of Mar. 21 at or near Menifee’s Wheatfield Park, after receiving a complaint that a man had exposed himself to at least one child who had been walking past the park to their school. The incident was reported in the area of Menifee and La Piedra Roads.

The 25-acre regional sports park, which sits directly adjacent Bell Mountain Middle School and Faith Bible Church, is home to many area youth-sports teams that use the facility’s numerous lighted ball-fields as well as tennis, basketball and volleyball courts for team athletics and recreation.

Deputies assigned to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Menifee Police Station responded to the park shortly before 8:30 a.m., Riverside County Sheriff’s Sergeant Orlando Castañeda explained the day of the incident and arrest.

Within minutes, responding deputies “located a male fitting the suspect’s description” and ultimately arrested Debose for indecent exposure and annoying or molesting a child. Both are misdemeanor charges. He was later booked at Cois Byrd Detention Center in Murrieta on those charges as well as charges related to at least one warrant.

Castañeda did not state if Bell Mountain or any other area schools were notified regarding the arrest or if the school or area parents were made aware of the incident – outside the department’s written press release.

When the District Attorney’s office did not file charges in time for this morning’s arraignment, Debose was ordered released in accordance with CA Penal Code 825; which expresses that if the DA’s office has not filed charges with the court within 48 hours of arrest, the arrested person must be released from custody. That 48-hour time-frame does not include weekends or holidays.

It was not immediately clear if the DA’s office rejected the case outright or sent it back to the arresting deputies for further investigation, but charges can still be filed at any time up to the expiration of the statute of limitations – a year for most misdemeanors and three years or more, depending on the charge, for felonies.

A Superior Court records search revealed Debose, who has several aliases, has been arrested and charged at least six times within Riverside County since 2012. Some of his prior arrests include charges of battery on a peace officer resulting in serious injury, violently resisting arrest, obstructing or resisting arrest, battery, trespassing, theft and shoplifting. He has also previously faced charges of failure to appear in court, failure to pay fines and violation of probation.

The charge Debose was seen in court for and pleaded guilty to today stemmed from a July, 2016 trespassing incident. That trespassing was related to a July, 2015 battery conviction. The two incidents happened almost exactly one year apart.

After pleading guilty to one of two battery charges involving the two Jack In The Box employees; as part of a November, 2015 plea deal Debose agreed in-part to stay away from the fast food restaurant and to have no further direct or indirect contact with the two restaurant employees he was accused of battering. He was also ordered to serve 30 days in a work-release program, attend a 52-week anger management course and pay fines of $1,189.

By the time of his arrest earlier this week – and in spite of several warrant-related arrests since his 2015 conviction – Debose had never showed up for a single day of work release and had not attended any of his court-ordered anger management classes.

Additionally, in spite of being ordered to pay thousands in court fines based on his multiple convictions – including $784.08 for a 2013 conviction for fighting with and injuring a Menifee patrol deputy – Debose has never made a single payment toward any of the court-levied fines and fees related to his cases.

After today’s guilty plea, Debose is now awaiting sentencing. His next court date has not yet been scheduled.

Anyone with information regarding this case is encouraged to contact Deputy R. Castellanos at the Perris Sheriff Station at (951) 210-1000 or by email. Callers can refer to incident file number ME180800016 and can remain anonymous. Citizens may also submit a tip using the Sheriff’s CrimeTips online form.

 

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Trevor Montgomery, 46, recently moved to Shasta County from Riverside County and runs Riverside County News Source and Shasta County News Source. Additionally, he writes for Riverside County based newspapers Valley News, The Valley Chronicle and Anza Valley Outlook as well as Bonsall/Fallbrook Village News in San Diego County.

Trevor spent 10 years in the U.S. Army as an Orthopedic Specialist before joining the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department in 1998. He was medically retired after losing his leg, breaking his back and suffering both spinal cord and brain injuries in an off-duty accident.

During his time with the sheriff’s department, Trevor worked at several different stations, including Robert Presley Detention Center, Southwest Station in Temecula, Hemet/Valle Vista Station, Ben Clark Public Safety Training Center and Lake Elsinore Station, along with other locations.