News From Around The County
HEMET — With a new police chief, an increase in police staffing levels, several new, resurrected or enhanced special teams, and new funding secured by recently passed Measure “U” all happening in the last few months, City of Hemet and Hemet Police Department officials were happy to report an overall decrease in total crime and an increase in felony arrests […]
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SAGE — Details are still emerging after deputies investigating reports of shots fired and an assault with a deadly weapon found a vehicle riddled with bullet holes this afternoon. Upon closer inspection, deputies found a man’s lifeless body inside the SUV. Investigators are now at the scene outside a home along a dirt road on the 39000 block of San Ignacio Road, […]
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UPDATED/CORRECTED: Friday, Mar. 16, 11:30 p.m. With additional info and details from HPD Chief Webb. HEMET — A member of the District Attorney’s office assigned to the City of Hemet PD’s Gang Impact Team was injured yesterday afternoon while helping other officers apprehend a man who had just led authorities on a dangerous pursuit in a stolen vehicle, according to officials. The […]
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Compiled from the Hemet Sheriff’s Station, San Jacinto Police Department and Hemet Police Department Click any thumbnail to open full-size image Hemet Sheriff’s Station Hemet Sheriff’s Deputies Graham, Stoyer, and Waters recently participated in a training session with southern California’s REACH Air Medical Services. RSO deputies never miss an opportunity to train and learn something new! Deputy Rutigliano recently made a […]
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HEMET — A motorist who plowed head-on into a Hemet power pole walked away uninjured earlier this evening. The wreck, which happened at Menlo Avenue west of State Street, sheared the pole in half and Southern California Edison employees are not expected to finish repairing the pole until tomorrow afternoon. City of Hemet Police and Fire Departments along with other emergency first responders were […]
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HEMET — School District and Sheriff’s officials announced the arrest earlier today of a 16-year-old girl who allegedly scrawled a threat against Hemet High School – and more directly, the school’s principal. The threat was left on a tiled wall inside a stall within a girl’s bathroom on the school’s campus. The arrest of the Hemet High School student where the threat was made […]
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HEMET — With fears, rumors and veiled threats swirling around several San Jacinto Valley and Inland Empire area schools and photographs of a threat scrawled on a bathroom wall at Hemet High School circulating on social media, a 7th grade girl’s report today of hearing gunshots at Diamond Valley Middle School brought authorities from throughout the valley rushing to locate, […]
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HEMET — Officials from two San Jacinto Valley law enforcement agencies worked together Monday night to diffuse an armed standoff and safely apprehend a distraught man. According to witnesses the man had repeatedly fired a handgun into the air and was threatening to hurt himself. Hemet PD officers responded to an apartment complex on Rosalia Avenue shortly before 9:30 p.m., after both city and county emergency […]
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HEMET — A man who plowed into a fire hydrant before crashing through a home’s chain-link fence and brick wall was apprehended after fleeing from the scene of the crash, Sunday afternoon, Feb. 25. In spite of fleeing and attempting to alter his appearance, officers were not fooled and arrested the subject for DUI, hit and run and other charges. City […]
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HEMET — Officials arrested two people who were stopped while driving a vehicle with license plates from a stolen car. The stop and arrests happened Wednesday evening, Feb. 22, in front of Quality Inn on the 1200 block of West Florida Avenue in Hemet. City of Hemet police officers were on patrol when they observed a red, 1995 Ford Mustang convertible being driven in the area […]
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