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SAN JACINTO – Multiple gunshots fired at a home in the 200 Block of East 6th Street near S. Sheriff Avenue in San Jacinto rattled nerves and left residents feeling frightened to leave their homes Saturday, Sept. 17. Deputies from the Riverside County Sheriff’s San Jacinto Police Station rushed to the scene of the shooting at about 8:18 p.m. after receiving several 911 calls […]
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RIVERSIDE – More facts are emerging about Riverside County Sheriff’s Deputy Alcide Galley Jr., 49, who caused a nearly 20-hour stand-off Aug. 31 with deputies and members of the Hemet/Murrieta Special Operations Unit (SWAT) at his French Valley home. (Click link to view original report and subsequent updates.) Towards the end of the nearly day long stand-off Galley Jr. was finally […]
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HEMET – A man with a realistic-looking replica firearm led Hemet Police officers on a foot pursuit through heavy traffic across Florida Avenue before he was tackled by an off-duty Riverside County Sheriff’s deputy and then subdued by several pursuing officers Thursday, Sept. 15. Officers identified the man as Christopher Lee Mahone, a 27-year old transient from the Los Angeles area. Officers […]
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UPDATE: 09/16/2016 3:45 p.m. See original story below. HEMET – In a move that has left many people shocked, stunned, and even furious, Hemet Police officials and social workers from Child Protective Services determined that no crime was committed during a videotaped incident in which a father appeared to be abusing his son by kneeling onto the boy’s testicles while […]
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One person was killed and another was injured in a two vehicle collision on SR 79 near Construction Road in Winchester. Loudlabs News Contributing Writer/On Scene Reporter – William Hayes By – Trevor Montgomery WINCHESTER – One person was killed and another was injured in a traffic collision Sept. 15. The fatal accident happened on State Route 79 just south of […]
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RIVERSIDE – A Moreno Valley resident was arrested this week by U.S. Marshals on a federal charge of being an accessory to a felony after she allegedly helped her husband flee to Mexico to avoid an October sentencing hearing. Prosecutors have accused 36-year-old Elba Soto of driving Jose Guadalupe Vega-Zuniga, who is a convicted felon and was in the United States illegally, from […]
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LAKE ELSINORE – Two people were arrested Sept. 14 after they were found in possession of a stolen motorcycle at the Travel Inn located in the 31000 block of Auto Center Drive in Lake Elsinore. Deputies assigned to the Theft Suppression Team of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Lake Elsinore Police Station conducted a records check of a motorcycle parked in […]
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SAN JACINTO – Deputies from the Riverside County Sheriff’s San Jacinto Police Station arrested a man for attempted murder and other charges after a violent domestic violence incident Saturday, Sept. 10. The incident happened in the 600 block of E. Washington Avenue. During a subsequent investigation deputies learned Henry Estavillo, 33, of San Jacinto was already out of jail on probation. At […]
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HEMET – Three months after a Marine Corps Veteran and father of two children was fatally stabbed during a fight outside a Hemet bar, Hemet police officials are still seeking the public’s help identifying and locating suspects and witnesses to the deadly incident. RELATED: Veteran, father of 2, dead after Hemet double stabbing, second victim recovering (Click link to view original story.) […]
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UPDATE: 09/23/2016 1 p.m. RIVERSIDE – A convicted felon accused of using a firearm to carjack a San Jacinto resident’s vehicle pleaded not guilty today to carjacking and using a deadly weapon during the commission of a felony. Jorge Alejandro Ojeda Jr., 40, of San Jacinto, was arrested Friday, Sept. 9 after Riverside County sheriff’s officials conducted an investigation into the carjacking the occurred the […]
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