News From Around The County
HEMET — Many people driving along Stetson Avenue in the city of Hemet yesterday who noticed what appeared to be a major incident happening at the old K-Mart shopping center were pleasantly surprised to hear the influx of sheriff’s patrol vehicles and K-9 handlers was related to a scheduled day of training for Riverside County Sheriff’s K-9 handlers and their […]
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SAN JACINTO — Three people were injured in a two-vehicle, rollover, traffic accident Tuesday, Aug. 16. The collision happened at the intersection of N. State Street and Cottonwood Avenue/N. Brinton Street in San Jacinto. Sheriff’s deputies, fire officials and paramedics were dispatched to the scene of the accident at 3:33 p.m., after several other motorists and witnesses called 911 to report […]
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SAN JACINTO — A suspicious package, found yesterday morning, Tuesday, Aug. 15, near the Riverside County Department of Child Support Services and County Probation offices brought a flood of law enforcement officials, bomb squad technicians and several bomb squad robots to inspect the item. After inspecting the package, which was found in the 1000 block of State Street in San Jacinto, authorities […]
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HEMET — A family of four was displaced by a fire that destroyed their home Tuesday, Aug. 15. The fire erupted at a single-family residence in the 100 block of N. Juanita Street in Hemet. Due to extensive damage to the home, fire officials at the scene called the residence and all the personal belongings inside a total loss. City of […]
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UPDATE: Friday, Aug. 4, 5 p.m. Officials release photos of “person of interest” in brutal, concrete-slab attack SAN JACINTO — Authorities have released images of a man they say is a “person of interest” in the brutal, concrete-slab attack that left a 44-year-old San Jacinto man in critical condition. The victim’s identity has not been released by officials. The violent […]
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UPDATE: Thursday, Aug. 3, 1:45 p.m. HEMET — Riverside County Sheriff – Coroner’s officials have identified the victim killed in last Friday’s fatal traffic collision as Gabriel Deniz, 52, of San Jacinto. A coroner’s release indicated Deniz died at the Riverside University Health Systems – Medical Center, just less than nine hours after he was involved in the accident. He was pronounced dead by […]
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WINCHESTER — A deputy shot at a man who allegedly accelerated in his direction in a pickup truck after trying to disarm and arrest the official, Sunday, July 30. The shooting happened near the intersection of Fields Drive and Washington Street in the unincorporated community of Winchester. After the shooting incident, the man the deputy fired upon led authorities on a pursuit that ended in […]
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SAN JACINTO — Officials are investigating the cause of a traffic collision that left one person dead and five others injured Thursday, July 27. The deadly collision happened at the intersection of N. Sanderson Avenue and N. Ramona Boulevard, south of Ramona Expressway, in San Jacinto. Riverside County Sheriff-Coroner officials later identified Linda Cato, 68, of San Jacinto as the person who was killed in the fatal […]
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HEMET — A local news photographer and videographer was arrested Sunday, July 24, while filming the scene of a three-vehicle car crash that involved an on-duty, Hemet police officer. He was arrested for obstructing a peace officer when he was slow to move his filming to a different area, as he was ordered by an officer to do. The man who was […]
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HEMET — Details are still emerging and officials have said very little after at least three people, including an on-duty Hemet police officer, were injured in a three-vehicle crash that CHP officials confirmed was possibly caused by street racing Monday, July 24. The accident – that destroyed all three vehicles and left one almost beyond recognition – happened in the 3000 […]
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