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UPDATE: Friday, Aug. 4, 5 p.m. Officials release photos of “person of interest” in brutal, concrete-slab attack SAN JACINTO — Authorities have released images of a man they say is a “person of interest” in the brutal, concrete-slab attack that left a 44-year-old San Jacinto man in critical condition. The victim’s identity has not been released by officials. The violent […]
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Robert Carter of Public Safety Incidents contributed to this report. VALLE VISTA – A woman was assaulted and her adult son was arrested after the 30-year-old man allegedly attacked and choked his mother Sunday, May 14. The violent Mother’s Day assault happened at the Rancho De Anza Mobile Home Park on the 43000 block of Highway 74 in the unincorporated […]
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CORONA – A hatchet-wielding man, who attacked several people, including an off-duty Corona police officer, was arrested after a vehicle pursuit wound its way from Corona to Garden Grove, in Orange County Friday, April 7. The initial hatchet attacks happened in a business in the 200 block of DuPont Street in Corona. At the end of the vehicle pursuit, officers identified […]
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UPDATED: April 15, 7 p.m. RIVERSIDE – Riverside police officials announced the arrest of a man who was wanted for allegedly attacking a woman in the City of Riverside’s Downtown Entertainment District. The suspect punched the woman in the face, causing her to suffer “significant injuries,” after she “rebuffed his sexual advances toward her,” according to police officials. The victim’s name has […]
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RIVERSIDE – Police officials are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man who entered into an occupied residence and assaulted two women Sunday, Nov. 20. The violent, early-morning assaults happened in the 3500 block of Audubon Place in Riverside; a quiet, tree-lined street east of Main Street and south of Spruce Street. The attack on the first victim […]
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HEMET – Police officials announced they have identified and arrested five of six people involved in the brutal and senseless beating of a 14-year-old. The young trick-or-treater was attacked Halloween night, Oct. 31. (Click link to view original story.) The attack happened on Mustang Way in Hemet shortly after 9 p.m. Hemet police officials initially explained the teenager was walking […]
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HEMET – Hemet police officials are investigating what they are calling an assault with a deadly weapon against a minor that occurred Halloween night. During the violent confrontation a 14-year-old boy was attacked by at least four subjects who hit the boy in the head with a bottle and kicked him in the head, causing him to lose consciousness. The […]
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MORENO VALLEY – A transient who tried to attack sheriff’s deputies with a knife was subdued and arrested for attempted murder of a peace officer and other charges Saturday, October 22. The incident happened outside a restaurant in the 24000 block of Sunnymead Boulevard, according to sheriff’s officials. Deputies from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Moreno Valley Police Station responded to a […]
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HEMET – A 20-year-old Hemet resident armed with a large metal chain attacked a 77-year-old senior citizen while on a vandalism spree Saturday, Oct. 15. The unprovoked incidents happened in the 700 block of W. Whittier Avenue in Hemet. City of Hemet emergency dispatchers began receiving several reports of a male subject vandalizing cars and houses with a metal chain at 9:46 p.m. Officers […]
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HEMET – A City of Hemet police officer was injured when he was attacked Sept. 8, by a 46-year-old transient on Post Release Community Supervision out of Kern County. After a violent confrontation and struggle the injured officer arrested the man. The incident began shortly after 8 a.m., when a Hemet Police Officer responded to a disturbance call at a gas station […]
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