News From Around The County
MENIFEE — Three teenage girls were hospitalized after a rollover accident involving an off-road vehicle that overturned in a dirt field Saturday afternoon, Nov. 18. The accident happened southeast of Newport and Briggs Roads in Menifee. Emergency first responders were dispatched to the scene of the accident about 4:17 p.m., after a frantic family member called 911 to report the accident. […]
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MENIFEE — A Hemet resident was arrested after plowing his vehicle into a cement truck, Thursday, Nov. 9. The DUI-related accident happened on State Highway 74 near Sherman Road in Menifee. After investigating the collision, deputies from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Menifee Police Station arrested 20-year-old, Austin Gregory Mikels, Riverside Sheriff’s Sergeant Lamb explained in a written press release after the accident and arrest. […]
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CANYON LAKE — Drug impairment is believed to be a contributing factor in a three-vehicle traffic collision that killed one person and injured three others, Thursday, Nov. 2. The fatal, DUI-related accident happened at the intersection of Railroad Canyon Road and Canyon Lake Drive South in Canyon Lake. Deputies from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Canyon Lake Police and Menifee Police Stations and other emergency […]
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MENIFEE — During Heritage High School’s recent annual Senior Night, Parker Benner – whose father, Riverside County Sheriff’s Emergency Communications Dispatcher Todd Benner, recently passed away – was surprised and grateful when members of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department escorted him in honor of his late father. During the school’s annual Senior Night on Friday, October 27, senior football players, band members and cheerleaders are escorted onto the field by their […]
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MENIFEE — Officials are searching for a man they say was responsible for the shooting murder of two people Sunday evening, Aug. 13. The double murder happened in the 25000 block of Waldon Road, north of Bundy Canyon and west of Murrieta Roads, in Menifee. Based on their investigation, Sheriff’s Central Homicide Unit investigators have identified and are searching for Jesus Sanchez Ponce, […]
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UPDATED: Saturday, Aug. 13, 6 p.m. ROMOLAND — Officials have identified the driver who died in last Thursday’s accident that happened at the intersection of Antelope and Mapes Roads. The intersection where the accident occurred borders the city of Menifee and the unincorporated community of Romoland. Riverside County Sheriff-Coroner’s officials identified Irene Perez, 72, of Perris as the victim who perished in the crash. According to […]
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MENIFEE — Officials arrested a probationer after they found a gun, ammunition and methamphetamine inside his vehicle, Wednesday, May 31. Authorities made the arrest about 9 p.m., after conducting a pedestrian check of a man seen walking away from a vehicle near the intersection of Oakmont Drive and Bradley Road in Menifee. After searching the Garcia’s car and locating the weapon […]
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MENIFEE – Three adults and a juvenile were displaced by an early morning fire that destroyed a Menifee mobile home Tuesday, May 15. The home where the devastating blaze erupted is on the 33400 block of Lindenberger Road in Menifee. Cal Fire/Riverside County Firefighters, Riverside County sheriff’s deputies and American Medical Response medics responded to the blaze about 3:43 a.m. Twenty-five firefighters from five […]
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MENIFEE – More than two dozen firefighters spent about one and one half hours knocking down a structure fire involving several vehicles, structures and outbuildings at a local business Sunday morning, April 23. The blaze broke out at the Menifee Collision Center in the 27700 block of Jackson Street in Menifee. Twenty-seven firefighters from six engine companies and two truck companies responded to […]
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UPDATE: April 23, 8:50 p.m. Riverside County Coroner officials have identified the person killed in yesterday morning’s fatal vehicle versus pedestrian accident when he struck while darting across the freeway. Officials identified the victim as Juan Escutia, 51, of San Bernardino. Escutia was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident less than ten minutes after the accident was reported, at […]
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