News From Around The County
HEMET — No injuries were reported after an SUV lost control and overturned, crashing into a wrought iron fence at the corner of a vacant building Sunday evening, Apr. 1. Two occupants who were in the speeding truck when it careened out of control and rolled reportedly fled the scene, but both were quickly located and apprehended. The hit and run […]
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HEMET — A man who fled the scene after fatally hitting a 20-year-old skateboarder on Florida Avenue, late Wednesday night, Mar. 28, has been arrested, according to Hemet police officials who announced the man’s arrest earlier today. After hitting the victim, who was later identified as Juan “Johnny” Cuevas Jr., of Hemet, the driver never slowed down and continued eastbound on Florida Avenue, […]
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UPDATED: Saturday, Mar. 31, 9:30 p.m. WILDOMAR — An 18-year-old man officials allege was intoxicated when a vehicle he was driving soared off Bundy Canyon Road and landed upside down on the roof of a preschool classroom was arrested after deputies tracked him to his residence. The accident, that reportedly destroyed a portable building, happened late Friday night, Mar. 30. Emergency first responders […]
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HEMET — Officials have identified a 20-year-old skateboarder who was fatally struck by a hit and driver late Wednesday night, Mar. 28, at the intersection of Florida Avenue and Girard Streets in the City of Hemet. After fatally hitting the man, the unidentified driver fled the scene of the deadly collision, leaving the dying man’s lifeless body in the middle of the roadway. […]
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UPDATED: Mar. 14, 8 p.m. With additional details LAKE ELSINORE — The devastated family of a 9-year-old boy is pleading for the public’s help identifying and locating a man who ran the child down in a Lake Elsinore cross walk before fleeing the scene, Tuesday evening, March 13. The young victim was inside a marked cross walk just a few yards from his home when […]
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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 — A woman was apprehended at the end of a dangerous high-speed pursuit that wound its way through Hemet earlier this evening. It was not immediately known what charges the woman was potentially facing and no officials from any of the multiple agencies involved in the chase – including Hemet PD, California Highway Patrol and Riverside County Sheriff’s Department […]
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PERRIS — A Perris resident, who officials say has multiple DUI arrests and convictions, was arrested again after he allegedly fled the scene after hitting a pedestrian Monday evening, Jan. 29. The woman died about one and one half hours after the hit and run accident, which happened near Patriot Park on Murrieta Road, about one-half mile north of San Jacinto Avenue, […]
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UPDATE: Sunday, Jan. 7, 5 p.m. WILDOMAR — Officials have identified a man who died after being struck by a vehicle that fled the scene, Thursday, Jan. 4. The fatal hit and run traffic collision happened at the intersection of Bundy Canyon Road and Harvest Way in Wildomar. Riverside County Sheriff-Coroner’s officials later identified Rudolph McCreight, 47, of Wildomar as the man killed in the […]
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UPDATED: Wednesday, Dec. 27, 9:15 p.m. PERRIS — Officials are investigating a fatal, vehicle versus pedestrian, hit and run traffic collision that took the life of a 68-year-old, Moreno Valley resident, early Christmas morning, Monday, Dec. 25. The man was found unconscious along the side of the road in front of Camper Resorts of America, on the 300 block of Ramona Expressway, in Perris. The […]
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