Tag: Alcohol

From prison to the Olympics to opening pH Wellness, a drug and alcohol treatment facility in Riverside – With Tony Hoffman

RIVERSIDE, Calif., — Sober since 2007 and paroled from prison in 2008 after being convicted for a 2004 armed home invasion robbery, Tony Hoffman refused to allow the stigma of his former homelessness and drug addiction to control his future. Rather than dwell on the failures of his past, he instead decided to use his personal experiences, setbacks, and life […]

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MENIFEE: Sheriff’s volunteers hospitalized after car plows through road block, into patrol vehicles

MENIFEE — Two sheriff’s volunteers assisting at the scene of a major-injury, DUI-related, head-on traffic collision were hospitalized after a sedan failed to yield to a sheriff’s roadblock and plowed through the roadblock and smashed into two volunteer patrol vehicles. The two separate accidents happened early Wednesday evening, Jan. 10, on the 26000 block of Menifee Road, near the intersection of Matthews/Case Road, in […]

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CITY OF SHASTA LAKE: Man arrested for DUI after plowing sedan into tree

CITY OF SHASTA LAKE — Authorities arrested a man who crashed into a tree while driving under the influence, Monday evening, Oct. 30. The DUI-related crash happened on Shasta Street near Toyon Avenue in the City of Shasta Lake. Deputies assigned to the City of Shasta Lake responded to the accident about 9 p.m. after SHASCOM emergency dispatchers received reports of the […]

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REDDING: Minor decoy/shoulder tap operation nets four arrests

REDDING — Two employees and two citizens were cited yesterday, after allegedly serving or purchasing alcoholic beverages for a minor who was working with law enforcement officials during a minor decoy and shoulder tap operation. The operation, which was funded by an A.B.C grant, took place throughout the city, Friday, Sept. 15. During the operation, City of Redding police officials and agents with the California Department of […]

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HEMET: DUI suspected in fiery, two-car wreck

Timothy Franzese of Public Safety Incidents contributed to this report.   HEMET — Reports of a fiery wreck in Hemet brought emergency first responders from multiple agencies rushing to the scene Saturday, June 3. The crash, which caused one vehicle to burst into flames, happened at the intersection of Domenigoni and Searl Parkways in Hemet. The accident happened at the […]

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MORENO VALLEY: DUI suspected in crash that injured four, one critically

MORENO VALLEY – Four people were injured, including one who was left in critical condition, when a vehicle smashed into a tree Monday, March 20. Officials believe alcohol and/or drug intoxication were contributing factors in the collision. The major-injury accident happened on Iris Avenue west of Oliver Street in Moreno Valley. The accident forced the overnight closure of eastbound Iris Avenue, between […]

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UPDATE #4 – Alcohol suspected in Sunday’s fatal crash on Sanderson Ave.

UPDATE: 09/26/206 1:35 p.m. SAN JACINTO – More facts are emerging about a fatal two vehicle traffic accident that happened on Sanderson Avenue Sunday, September 25. The accident occurred north of Ramona Expressway and south of Gilman Springs Road in San Jacinto. The deadly accident happened at 2:45 a.m. The driver of a Toyota truck that was struck by an out of control Ford […]

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MENIFEE: Alcohol intoxication suspected in fatal motorcycle crash

MENIFEE – A motorcyclist died Friday, Sept. 23 in an early morning solo-vehicle motorcycle accident when he crashed his customized Harley Davidson on Newport Road just west of Haun Road in Menifee. The victim was later identified by coroner’s officials as Casey Ivey, 41, of Winchester. The coroner’s release indicated Ivey’s time of injury was 12:55 a.m. He died nearly three hours later at 3:35 […]

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UPDATE: Drugs and alcohol contributing factors in crash that killed 3 Hemet teens in Murrieta, officials announce

Trevor Montgomery   MURRIETA – Toxicology reports from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Coroner’s Office and a press release recently issued from the Murrieta Police Department have finally begun to shed new light into a fatal accident in Murrieta that took the lives of three young Hemet residents. The coroner’s office identified the three teens killed in the fatal traffic collision […]

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