News From Around The County
EASTVALE — Officials are investigating after an off-duty city of Pomona police officer opened fire at one of three men who broke into his home Saturday afternoon, Dec. 23. All three alleged suspects managed to flee from the home after the shooting, which happened on the 6400 block of Caxton Street, south of Limonite Avenue and east of Hamner Avenue, in […]
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JURUPA VALLEY — Officials have credited the Friday, Dec. 8 arrest of an alleged burglary suspect to the fast actions of a 70-year-old man who held the burglar at gunpoint after catching him breaking into his Jurupa Valley residence. The incident and arrest happened on the 5300 Block of Riverview Drive in Jurupa Valley. Deputies from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Jurupa Valley Police […]
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JURUPA VALLEY — Two officers were injured and a deputy was hospitalized as a precaution after officials apprehended a PRCS probationer following a violent confrontation, arson-fire and deputy-involved shooting, Monday afternoon, Dec. 4. During the incident the suspect, who was later identified as Clinton Jeffrey Althizer, 40, of Jurupa Valley, repeatedly rammed a stolen vehicle into a deputy’s patrol vehicle, led pursuing officials […]
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JURUPA VALLEY — Officials are investigating after a motorist was seriously injured and suffered life-threatening injuries in a single-vehicle traffic collision, Friday, Dec. 1. The early morning, major-injury accident happened when the victim’s vehicle left the eastbound Highway 60 and smashed into a light pole and group of trees along the side of the freeway at the Country Village off-ramp in Jurupa Valley. California Highway Patrol […]
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JURUPA VALLEY — Firefighters spent several hours battling a difficult pallet and wood mulch blaze at a recycling plant, Wednesday, Nov. 29. The early morning fire erupted at Rios Recycling on the 5000 block of Wilson Street near S. Brown Avenue in Jurupa Valley. Nearly forty firefighters from eleven engine companies responded to reports of the fire just after 2 a.m., Cal Fire/Riverside County Fire […]
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JURUPA VALLEY — Officials are investigating a fatal, two-vehicle, traffic collision that happened Tuesday evening, Nov. 14. The deadly accident happened on Rubidoux Boulevard, about one-half mile north of Production Circle, in Jurupa Valley, according to sheriff and fire officials. Members from the Riverside County Sheriff-Coroner Office later identified Esmeralda Quintero, 19, of Moreno Valley, as the woman killed when her car reportedly drifted into oncoming […]
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JURUPA VALLEY — Authorities are asking for the public’s help identifying and locating a vehicle they say was possibly involved in the Aug. 25 murder of a 17-year-old. The victim, who officials have not identified due to his age, died after he was shot multiple times on the 6900 block of Adele Lane in Jurupa Valley. The residential neighborhood where the shooting happened […]
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JURUPA VALLEY — Four people were hospitalized in a two-vehicle, head-on accident, Saturday, October 21. The early morning collision happened in the area of Country Village Road and Oak Leaf Way, between Philadelphia Avenue and Highway 60, in Jurupa Valley. Driving under the influence is suspected as a contributing factor in the crash, a sheriff official said after the wreck. Deputies, firefighters […]
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JURUPA VALLEY — Reports of middle school students and faculty members smelling natural gas in two classrooms and a restroom forced the evacuation of all three rooms while Cal Fire, Southern California Gas and School District officials determined the source of the smell and rendered the situation safe. SEE SIMILAR: COACHELLA: 700 students evac’d after second RivCo middle school gas leak in 5 days […]
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JURUPA VALLEY — A probationer living in an abandoned motor home in a dirt field was arrested after officials determined he had two felony warrants and was in possession a loaded firearm and narcotics, Thursday, Sept. 21. The motor home had been parked in a field near 34th and Wallace Streets in Jurupa Valley. Members of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Region 7 Gang Task […]
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