News From Around The County
HEMET — A probationer was arrested after Hemet police officers conducted a traffic stop and found him to be in possession of a stolen vehicle early Sunday morning, March 31. Officers arrested Jesus Trejo Arzate, 28, and he was later booked into Cois Byrd Detention Center on suspicion of possession of a stolen vehicle and violation of probation. Jail records […]
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HEMET — A bicyclist was hospitalized and a motorist was shaken up after the bike rider reportedly darted into traffic and was struck by a car early Saturday evening, March 30. The accident happened on Florida Ave., east of Palm Ave., in front of Hemet’s Days Inn. LEADING THE RCNS HEADLINES: Three-vehicle, head-on crash possibly caused by drowsy driver Drunk […]
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HEMET — One person was hospitalized and another was arrested after the driver of a mini van blew through a stop sign and plowed broadside into a U.S. Mail carrier van yesterday afternoon, Friday, March 29. The driver of the mini van was later determined to be intoxicated and was arrested at the scene. Yesterday’s DUI-related collision, which caused the […]
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HEMET — Officials are investigating the cause of a solo-vehicle, rollover accident, after a motorist hit a parked car, causing her vehicle to overturn Wednesday afternoon, March 27. Yesterday’s crash happened in the 2000 block of Begonia Ct., inside a small Hemet residential neighborhood, northwest of W. Johnston and S Lyon avenues. LEADING THE HEMET HEADLINES: HPD arrests men believed […]
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HEMET — A driver escaped serious injury but the vehicle she was driving was totaled after the woman reportedly lost control, jumped a curb, and plowed head-on into a large tree in Hemet this morning, Sunday, March 24. The minor-injury crash happened on E. Menlo Ave., west of Buena Vista St. LEADING THE RCNS HEADLINES: AZ man identified after fatal […]
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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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MORENO VALLEY — A Hemet couple is behind bars after authorities allege they abducted a 10-year-old boy who was the biological child of the pair, but had been removed from their custody and placed into foster care. After an intensive, six-hour search Thursday, March 21, officials eventually found the missing juvenile with his parents at the couple’s Hemet residence. The […]
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HEMET — Authorities last night announced the arrest of two men they say were involved in a shooting last week that injured one juvenile victim, sending the minor to the hospital with a gunshot wound to his back. Officials have also said they believe the same two men were responsible for another shooting on the same street within the gated […]
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HEMET — Authorities are continuing to search for a man who managed to elude apprehension earlier this afternoon, Wednesday, March 20. The as-yet unidentified suspect fled from officers – first in a vehicle and then on foot into a Hemet mobile home park – after crashing into another car at the intersection of W. Latham Ave. and N. Elk St. […]
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HEMET — A male was hospitalized with at least one gunshot injury after a shooting inside Hemet’s gated Willowalk community earlier this afternoon, Sunday, March 17. Although there have been multiple reports of where the shooting happened, most reports indicate the shooting happened in the area of Waterside Dr. and Saltcreek Way, near the south entrance of the gated community. […]
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