News From Around The County
HEMET — A neighborhood was evacuated and a felon – who was out of jail on bail for previous charges – was arrested again, Friday, March 22, after a probation compliance check uncovered a suspected improvised explosive device. Sheriff’s bomb squad members later detonated the device, which officials later described as a pipe bomb. Yesterday’s incident happened in the 44000 […]
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REDDING: Authorities responding to reports of a suspicious device within the Clover Creek Preserve safely detonated the object, Friday, June 22. After an investigation, officials determined the device had been stolen during a residential burglary. SEE ALSO: Shasta County’s Most Wanted Criminals & Arrests – Updated Weekly City of Redding police officers were dispatched to the area of Shasta View […]
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REDDING — A Sheriff’s bomb squad that was called in to help search for explosives at a private Redding residence near an elementary school later located two separate packages of an explosive material similar to C4, according to authorities. Because of the investigation’s close proximity to Buckeye Elementary School, which was the scene of a police shooting just eight days earlier […]
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NORCO — Passengers aboard a Dial-A-Ride bus – including numerous adult, special-needs passengers – had to endure a scary encounter when a passenger reportedly claimed to have a bomb inside his backpack in Norco, Thursday afternoon, Feb. 1. Deputies assigned to the Norco Sheriff’s Office responded to a 911 call reporting the incident shortly before 4 p.m. According to at least one 911 caller the man had a backpack with […]
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HEMET — Sheriff’s bomb squad members assisting Hemet Police Department investigating a suspicious package later detonated the item, early Monday evening, Jan. 15. The investigation caused the temporary closure of Florida Avenue, between Hamilton and Palm Avenues, in Hemet. Although details are still emerging, after members of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Hazardous Device Team detonated the suspicious package they determined it had posed […]
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HEMET — City and County law enforcement officials and members of the Sheriff’s bomb squad who responded to reports of a suspicious looking package found under a vehicle later determined the box had been empty and posed no danger. Despite that fact it was not immediately known if the empty box, which was found lodged under the driver’s door of […]
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MURRIETA — Two suspicious phone calls threatening to blow up Murrieta Valley High School caused school officials to place their campus on lock down for nearly three hours, while officials and bomb-sniffing dogs searched the school’s campus, Wednesday, Nov. 8. The investigation began about 9 a.m., after the campus received the phone calls threatening that the school was going to be blown up, Murrieta Police […]
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SAN JACINTO — A suspicious package, found yesterday morning, Tuesday, Aug. 15, near the Riverside County Department of Child Support Services and County Probation offices brought a flood of law enforcement officials, bomb squad technicians and several bomb squad robots to inspect the item. After inspecting the package, which was found in the 1000 block of State Street in San Jacinto, authorities […]
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Trevor Montgomery CORONA – A man found unresponsive inside a rented van that contained a note warning of a bomb and “deadly gas” inside the vehicle led to the evacuation of a nearby school, apartment complex, and mobile home park. The incident also forced the closure of several nearby streets and lasted over eight hours. In addition to hundreds of students […]
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Trevor Montgomery Riverside County News Source At almost the exact same time as law enforcement officers from multiple agencies and multiple counties were descending on the Galleria At Tyler regarding reports of a possible active shooter incident, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department’s Hazardous Devices Team responded to the Desert Hills Premium Outlets in Cabazon this evening. The bomb squad was […]
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