News From Around The County
ROMOLAND — Two drivers were hospitalized with major injuries after a two-vehicle wreck, Saturday evening, Feb. 17. California Highway Patrol, Cal Fire/Riverside County Fire and other emergency first responders were dispatched to the area of Mapes and Menifee Roads in Romoland, after they were notified regarding a traffic collision with at least one victim trapped inside their vehicle. When officials arrived in the area […]
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MENIFEE — Authorities have released little information other than to confirm they are conducting a death investigation after a man’s body was found inside a parked vehicle Thursday, Feb. 15. According to witnesses, the white SUV the man was found in was parked in the Stater Bros Markets parking lot, southeast of the intersection of Newport and Menifee Roads, in Menifee. Deputies assigned to the Riverside […]
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MENIFEE — Officials are investigating after a young child was seriously injured after being found unresponsive in a hot tub at a private residence in Menifee, Sunday evening, Feb. 4. The near drowning happened at a residence on the 30000 block of Buckboard Lane, southwest of Newport and Murrieta Roads. Emergency first responders raced to the home shortly before 7:30 p.m., after the child was […]
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UPDATED: Saturday, Jan. 20 1:30 a.m., With victim’s identification, additional details MENIFEE — A Los Angeles man who authorities say was involved in a parking lot scuffle with loss prevention officers died two days later at a Murrieta hospital. According to officials, the man possibly sustained fatal injuries when loss prevention officers detained him after seeing him stealing merchandise […]
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MENIFEE — Two people died and two others were injured Monday evening, Jan. 15, in a multiple-vehicle, traffic collision that happened on the southbound Interstate 215, between McCall Boulevard and Ethanac Road, in Menifee. One of the drivers told officials at the scene he was a reporter/photographer headed home to San Diego after spending the afternoon obtaining footage of a home […]
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MENIFEE — Deputies arrested three people following a traffic stop after discovering the trio was in possession of narcotics and drug paraphernalia, Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 9. After the traffic stop, deputies served a search warrant at the alleged suspect’s home, at which time they located and seized additional narcotics and multiple weapons. After the investigation, Victoria Madrigal, 52, Erika Fletchall, 29, […]
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MENIFEE — Two sheriff’s volunteers assisting at the scene of a major-injury, DUI-related, head-on traffic collision were hospitalized after a sedan failed to yield to a sheriff’s roadblock and plowed through the roadblock and smashed into two volunteer patrol vehicles. The two separate accidents happened early Wednesday evening, Jan. 10, on the 26000 block of Menifee Road, near the intersection of Matthews/Case Road, in […]
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MENIFEE — An 8-year-old girl was seriously injured when she was struck by the side of a car after chasing a ball into a street, Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 19. The accident happened in the area of Stillwater and Halcyon Drives, south of Newport Road and west of Menifee Lakes, in the city of Menifee. Emergency first responders were dispatched to the area about […]
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UPDATED: Friday, Dec. 15 9 p.m. MENIFEE — Riverside County sheriff’s investigators are asking for the public’s help identifying one or more suspects believed to have been involved in the death of a Menifee bicyclist, Thursday morning, Dec. 7. The man succumbed to his injuries and died at Inland Valley Medical Center four days after the incident. Sheriff’s officials have released very few details about […]
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MENIFEE — Three teenage girls were hospitalized after a rollover accident involving an off-road vehicle that overturned in a dirt field Saturday afternoon, Nov. 18. The accident happened southeast of Newport and Briggs Roads in Menifee. Emergency first responders were dispatched to the scene of the accident about 4:17 p.m., after a frantic family member called 911 to report the accident. […]
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