Sheriff’s chopper spots drunk driver, HPD makes arrest
HEMET, Calif. — A suspected drunk driver was apprehended in Hemet after a Sheriff’s aviation crew spotted a recklessly speeding pickup truck and called in Hemet PD officers to assist in making a traffic stop Tuesday afternoon, Sept. 22.
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Crew members in Star-9 notified Hemet PD that they were heading back to their base of operations at Hemet-Ryan Airport around 3 p.m., when they spotted a red Chevy S-10 pick up truck that was speeding and driving recklessly.
Video filmed at the scene showed a loud and belligerent man angrily arguing with officers after he was stopped for driving recklessly Tuesday afternoon. Robert Carter & Timothy Franzese/Public Safety Incidents photo
While City of Hemet patrol officers and Gang Task Force members were responding to the area, aviation members reported seeing the truck swerve around stopped vehicles into a field at Warren Rd. and W. Stetson Ave. and then run a stoplight at Warren Rd. and Mustang Way.
With Star-9 providing updates from above, officers managed to get behind the vehicle and conduct a traffic stop in the area of W. Stetson and Palm avenues, where the driver pulled into an empty parking lot across the street from Hemet Fire Station #2.
Officials ultimately detained the angry and belligerent driver for DUI and transported him to Hemet PD for further investigation. His female passenger was later released.
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Robert Carter & Timothy Franzese/Public Safety Incidents photos
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Trevor Montgomery, 49, moved in 2017 to the Intermountain area of Shasta County from Riverside County and runs Riverside County News Source and Shasta County News Source. Additionally, he writes or has written for several other news organizations; including Riverside County based newspapers, Valley News, (the now defunct) Valley Chronicle, Anza Valley Outlook, and Hemet & San Jacinto Chronicle; as well as Bonsall/Fallbrook Village News in San Diego County and Mountain Echo in Shasta 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. (Click here to see segment of Discovery Channel documentary of Trevor’s 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.
Trevor’s assignments included Corrections, Patrol, DUI Enforcement, Boat and Personal Water-Craft based Lake Patrol, Off-Road Vehicle Enforcement, Problem Oriented Policing Team, and Personnel/Background Investigations. He finished his career while working as a Sex Crimes and Child Abuse Investigator and was a court-designated expert in child abuse and child sex-related crimes.
Trevor has been married for more than 30 years and was a foster parent to more than 60 children over 13 years. He is now an adoptive parent and his “fluid family” includes 13 children and 18 grandchildren.