News From Around The County
RIVERSIDE – A barricaded suspect was arrested after he held officers at bay during an early-morning, five-hour long standoff at a Mission Grove-area home Sunday morning April 23. The standoff happened on the 100 block of Port Royal Way, north of E. Allesandro Boulevard and west of Mission Grove Parkway North, in Riverside. The standoff began with the report of a domestic […]
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UPDATE: April 19, 2 p.m. MORENO VALLEY: After an hours-long incident that forced many families to be evacuated from their homes has ended after Sheriff’s Emergency Response Team (SERT/SWAT) members entered the residence and found nobody at the location. In a phone interview shortly after 2 p.m., Riverside County Sheriff’s spokesman Deputy Michael Vasquez confirmed that the person who had fled […]
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UPDATE: March 26, 9 p.m. With additional information from sheriff’s department. CHERRY VALLEY – Sheriff’s officials provided more information about Saturday’s deadly barricaded standoff that ended with two people dead, March 25. Authorities are calling the incident a murder-suicide. The victim was later identified as Jose Leon, 46, of Cherry Valley. The suspect was identified as John Malicek, 67, of […]
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