News From Around The County
BURNEY, Calif. — Shasta County Sheriff’s officials who last Sunday confirmed exclusively to SCNS that a murder investigation was underway after the beating death of a Burney man have announced that a suspect has been identified and arrested in the ongoing investigation. The victim, 61-year-old, Mark Anderson, who was affiliated with the Burney Church of Christ as a caretaker and […]
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OLD STATION, Calif. — Authorities say a man who violently fought with and then pulled a knife and threatened a deputy during an Old Station disturbance investigation was eventually apprehended after an hours-long standoff and SWAT callout yesterday morning, Wednesday, March 24. The alleged suspect, Benjamin W. Elliott, 41, of Old Station, was coaxed out of his residence by crisis […]
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SAN JACINTO, Calif. — “Were you watching your speed this morning? We were,” deputies from San Jacinto said today after a two-hour speed enforcement operation yielded 36 speeding citations – with at least one driver caught driving more than 90 mph earlier today. The enforcement operation follows numerous recent major injury and fatal traffic collisions on Sanderson Avenue near Ramona Expressway […]
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COTTONWOOD, Calif. — Saying, “Not on our watch”, Shasta County Sheriff’s Office announced that a side-by-side UTV stolen from West Valley High School in Cottonwood over the weekend was recovered and a man was arrested earlier today, Wednesday morning, March 24. LEADING THE SCNS HEADLINES: Wanted parolee’s arrest ends Shasta Lake barricaded standoff BREAKING: Homicide investigation underway after Burney man’s death […]
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SAN JACINTO, Calif. — A hang glider was hospitalized after crashing in the San Jacinto hills above Soboba Road Sunday morning, March 21. The injured hang glider, who had taken off from Soboba Flight Park before crashing, had to be hoisted to safety by a Riverside County Sheriff’s helicopter, before being transported to an area hospital for further treatment. LEADING […]
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CITY OF SHASTA LAKE, Calif. — Authorities say a wanted felon was apprehended after barricading herself first in someone’s home and then inside their bathroom Saturday morning, March 20. The woman, since identified as Cassidy Corrine Faler, age 36, of Redding, was eventually taken into custody after deputies forced their way into the bathroom where the parolee had been hiding. […]
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LAKE ELSINORE, Calif. — Three people sustained minor injuries, including one adult and a child who were hospitalized, after a watercraft accident left the trio stranded and their Sea-Doo capsized in the water at Lake Elsinore Monday afternoon, March 22. LEADING THE RCNS HEADLINES: Deputy hospitalized, suspect dead after shots fired during Perris standoff Discovery of woman’s body in Temecula […]
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REDDING, Calif. — Authorities say a wanted PRCS felon with eight outstanding warrants who has been arrested eleven times in the last two years was arrested again after leading officers on a dangerous, 100 mph pursuit from Redding to Red Bluff yesterday afternoon, March 21. The man was apprehended after sliding down a hotel laundry shoot, right into the waiting […]
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PERRIS, Calif. — Authorities say that shots exchanged between an armed suspect and deputies during a barricaded standoff left a deputy injured and hospitalized Sunday, March 21. The deputy remains hospitalized in good condition, according to Riverside Sheriff’s Public Information Officer C. Sgt. Deanna Pecoraro, who did not specify the nature or extent of the deputy’s injuries. The suspect who […]
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BURNEY, Calif. — Although Shasta County Sheriff’s Office officials have said they were not yet ready to release any specific details or information, an SCSO Sergeant confirmed to SCNS this afternoon that a homicide investigation is underway in the small, Intermountain area town of Burney. The victim, confirmed as Mark Anderson, of Burney, recently died after an unspecified altercation that […]
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