News From Around The County
UPDATED: Thursday, Dec. 16, 12:42 p.m. Originally Published: Wednesday, Oct. 14, 4:26 a.m. See Original Story below. HEMET, Calif., — A Hemet man has been sentenced to six years in state prison for the fatal October 2020 shooting of an elderly Hemet woman. The 75-year-old victim died after being struck by a bullet inadvertently discharged while the man was handling […]
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RIVERSIDE COUNTY, Calif., — A Cal Fire-Riverside firefighter and his wife were both sentenced to four years in state prison yesterday after the couple pleaded guilty to multiple charges related to a 2015 attempted insurance scam. According to the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office, the scam involved a pickup truck Eric Jabbar Norwood, 51, and Linda Lee Norwood, 57, both […]
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SHASTA COUNTY, Calif., — A 24-year-old Fall River Mills man was sentenced to 13 years and 8 months in state prison on Tuesday after pleading guilty to igniting at least a dozen fires in the Burney and Johnson Park communities earlier this year. The man, Cole Rainwater, was apprehended May 7, when he was spotted fleeing the scene of a fire he […]
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HEMET, Calif. — Already on felony probation for an earlier 2016 DUI conviction, a Moreno Valley woman who admitted she was drunk when she plowed into the back of another vehicle–killing two Beaumont men, was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison on Thursday, July 8. The parolee was traveling in excess of 100 mph at the time of […]
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SAN JACINTO, Calif. — A 25-year-old San Jacinto woman who killed an elderly Yucaipa man in an early-morning “T-Bone” traffic collision in San Jacinto in October 2018 was sentenced to a year in jail and five years felony probation on Thursday, June 17. Angelica Hauste pleaded guilty last month to DUI gross vehicular manslaughter with a sentence-enhancing great bodily injury allegation, for the […]
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ANDERSON, Calif. — A woman accused of walking around an Anderson Safeway “forcefully and purposefully” coughing on employees and shoppers during the COVID-19 pandemic was sentenced last week after pleading guilty to numerous misdemeanor charges related to five of the pending cases against her. The woman, Tammy Ann Baldwin, 61, of Anderson, was identified as a chronic offender by the […]
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SHASTA COUNTY, Calif. — A Redding man was sentenced to more than 19 years in state prison earlier today, after recently pleading guilty to charges related to a violent, trespassing-related incident at Shasta College last year that left three officers hospitalized with serious injuries. The man involved in the April, 2019 attack was already on parole for assault with a […]
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MURRIETA – A Murrieta resident, who was accused last year of harassing a 15-year-old girl after he allegedly sent lewd images of himself via his mobile phone and attempted to arrange a meeting for sex with the teen, was sentenced today to three years probation and ordered to register as a sex offender. (Click here to view original story.) John Louis Colberg, 24, pleaded […]
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HEMET – A Hemet area transient and convicted felon who attacked a Hemet police officer and tried to stab the official with his own badge Sept. 8, 2016, pleaded guilty Tuesday, March 7 to one misdemeanor count of resisting arrest. (Click link to read original story.) The man, who was identified as 46-year-old, Gerald Owen Peachie, was arrested after the violent altercation with […]
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HEMET – A man who viciously attacked a 77-year-old senior citizen with a large metal chain during a vandalism spree in October was sentenced Monday, Nov. 28. Orion Isaiah Heil, a 20-year-old Hemet resident was sentenced to nine months in jail and three years formal probation. However, in lieu of jail, Heil was given the option of enrolling in home detention and […]
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