Category: State and National Headlines

We “will not be blackmailed, bullied, or used as muscle,” RivCo Sheriff says of Governor’s mandates

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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More details emerge after deadly Redding officer-involved shooting

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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Children, 1 and 2, “found unconscious” in car at Walmart – Pregnant mother arrested

SAN JACINTO, Calif. — Authorities say a woman was arrested after allegedly leaving her two young children inside a car parked at a San Jacinto Walmart Monday, Nov. 30. According to a Sheriff’s Sergeant, the children, a one-year-old girl and two-year-old boy, were found unconscious within arm’s reach of methamphetamine and heroin and rushed to an area hospital for advanced […]

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San Bernardino PD officers fatally shoot man armed with large knife

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — Authorities say a San Bernardino man who was threatening family members with a large kitchen knife was fatally shot when he failed to comply with responding officers and charged at them while still armed with the knife Friday evening, Nov. 27. LEADING THE RCNS HEADLINES: Desert Hot Springs man charged in toddler’s murder One dead after […]

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RivCo training academy closes after recruits test positive for COVID-19

RIVERSIDE COUNTY, Calif. — In the wake of several recruits testing positive for COVID-19, the Ben Clark Public Safety Training Center, which offers comprehensive law enforcement, fire, and correctional custody public safety training for law enforcement and fire agencies throughout California, recently announced that the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department had temporarily suspended their academy training program. Although officials have made no […]

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“SLOW THE F-AST DOWN”: says CHP

A new statewide initiative recently issued by California Highway Patrol and the State of California encourages drivers to “Slow The Fast Down” and understand the dangers of speeding. Saying that excessive speeding went way up during the beginning of the state’s mandated COVID-19 public health crisis related stay-at-home orders in March, CHP recently announced that between March 19 and April […]

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ShasCo Sheriff, Redding PD Chief say they “will not be enforcing” recent COVID-19 mandates

SHASTA COUNTY, Calif. — In response to the latest COVID-19 public health crisis related mandates announced by California Governor Gavin Newsom last week, both Shasta County Sheriff Eric Magrini and City of Redding Police Chief Bill Schueller have announced that their departments – the two largest law enforcement agencies based within Shasta County – will not be enforcing any of the […]

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Knife-wielding man fatally shot by officers in Beaumont

BEAUMONT, Calif. — Officials in Beaumont say a man armed with two large knives who advanced toward officers was fatally shot Sunday evening, Nov. 22. No officers or other citizens were injured during the deadly incident, which happened in the intersection of 6th Street and Beaumont Avenue. LEADING THE RCNS HEADLINES: Boy suffers “significant injuries” after Temecula assault, attempted sodomy […]

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Boy suffers “significant injuries” after Temecula assault, attempted sodomy

TEMECULA, Calif. — Authorities say they arrested a man who allegedly beat and attempted to sodomize a teenage boy in Temecula in the early morning hours of Monday, Nov. 23. The incident, which left the teen hospitalized with “significant injuries”, happened in a wash area southeast of Temecula and Pechanga parkways, Riverside Sheriff’s Sergeant Edmond Seltzer later said of the […]

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Hemet officer wounded in drive-by shooting – Gunman arrested

HEMET, Calif. — Authorities say that one of two officers investigating reports of someone indiscriminately shooting a gun in Hemet was struck by gunfire when the suspect drove back through the area of the initially reported shootings and fired upon the officers early this morning, Monday, Nov. 23. The suspect, 20-year-old, Robert Moran, of Hemet, was apprehended shortly after the […]

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