UPDATE: HEMET: Man who tried to stab officer with his own badge sentenced

HEMET – A Hemet area transient and convicted felon who attacked a Hemet police officer and tried to stab the official with his own badge Sept. 8, 2016, pleaded guilty Tuesday, March 7 to one misdemeanor count of resisting arrest. (Click link to read original story.) The man, who was identified as 46-year-old, Gerald Owen Peachie, was arrested after the violent altercation with […]

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Hemet: Officer injured during violent confrontation with transient

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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