News From Around The County
MURRIETA, Calif. — Authorities say DUI saturation patrols in Menifee – held on Thursday, Dec 3 and Friday, Dec 4 – led to two significant drug and gun-related arrests. Funding for this DUI Patrol was provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Murrieta Police Sergeant Matthew Bloch later reported. […]
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RIVERSIDE COUNTY, Calif. — In a move joining other California law enforcement agencies across the state, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco yesterday announced his deputies would not be enforcing California Governor Gavin Newsom’s recently updated stay-at-home orders, curfews, and other mandates regarding the ongoing COVID-19 public health crisis and pandemic. Calling the Governor’s orders “hypocritical”, “dictatorial”, and “flat out ridiculous”, […]
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. — An Orange County mortuary transport employee was arrested earlier this week after a months-long investigation into the reported theft of a ring worth thousands of dollars from the hand of a deceased elderly Riverside woman last September, authorities announced Dec. 3. LEADING THE RCNS HEADLINES: Children, 1 and 2, “found unconscious” in car at Walmart – Pregnant […]
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REDDING, Calif. — Authorities say a handgun and rifle-wielding man was arrested in Redding after the suspect fired multiple rifle rounds from his apartment in the 1200 block of Bundy Court afternoon, Thursday, December 3. Witnesses later reported hearing more than a dozen rounds fired. The small cul-de-sac where the shootings occurred, which sits southeast of Churn Creek Road and […]
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AGUANGA, Calif. — Two people were killed and three others were hospitalized after a three-vehicle, rollover traffic collision on Highway 79 South just north of Dugan Drive Thursday afternoon, December 3. The fatal accident happened in the unincorporated county area of Aguanga near Vail Lake, about five miles east of Temecula, according to officials. LEADING THE RCNS HEADLINES: Children, 1 […]
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ANZA, Calif. — Authorities have released the name of a man who died after a two-vehicle traffic collision that happened at the intersection of Highway 371 and Howard Road in Anza late Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 2. LEADING THE RCNS HEADLINES: Children, 1 and 2, “found unconscious” in car at Walmart – Pregnant mother arrested Banning father of four killed, 5 others […]
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WHITEWATER, Calif. — Officials say a flat tire led to a solo-vehicle rollover crash that killed a father and injured his spouse and four children in the unincorporated Whitewater area just east of Cabazon late yesterday afternoon, Wednesday, Dec. 2. The deadly crash happened along the eastbound I-10, between the Haugen-Lehmann Way and Main Street offramps, according to California Highway […]
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HEMET, Calif. — Authorities today are continuing a murder investigation after a man’s lifeless body was discovered along a rural road in the 34000 block of Bautista Road, an unincorporated county area in the hills southeast of Hemet late Monday afternoon, Nov. 30. LEADING THE RCNS HEADLINES: Children, 1 and 2, “found unconscious” in car at Walmart – Pregnant mother […]
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UPDATED: Friday, Dec. 4, 11:35 p.m. See Original Story below. REDDING, Calif. — In response to inquiries about Tuesday’s fatal shooting involving a woman who ran over a Redding police officer, Shasta County Sheriff’s Office today released the following statement: On December 2nd, 2020, at approximately 6:27 PM, officers from the Redding Police Department responded to a disturbance call in […]
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ANDERSON, Calif. — A man who led Anderson police officers on a dangerous October, 2019 high-speed pursuit in a stolen vehicle that ended in the death of one of his passengers pleaded guilty in court to numerous felony charges and enhancements yesterday, Dec. 1. The pursuit ended when the driver, Derreck Gary Tope, hit an Interstate 5 median at the first exit […]
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