News From Around The County
BURNEY – A probation search at 15796 Stagecoach Drive, in the Mill Creek Subdivision outside of Oak Run on Thursday, Mar. 10 yielded three illegally possessed firearms and over 40 pounds of marijuana. The target of the search, identified by sheriff’s officials as Harley Wack, 36, was not located at the time of the search and is currently believed to be evading […]
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REDDING – Investigators from the Shasta County Sheriff’s Major Crimes Unit are investigating an apparent murder-suicide that occurred on Wednesday, Mar. 09, according to Shasta County Sheriff Sergeant Brian Jackson. The investigation began at 9:43 p.m., when deputies from the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to a reported domestic violence incident in progress, occurring at 20096 Sugar Plum Way, in an unincorporated area […]
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UPDATE #7 Press release from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department: On Thursday, March 17, 2016, at approximately 1:00 PM, officers from the San Jacinto Police Department received a call of possible shots fired within the 300 block of Idyllwild Drive, in the city of San Jacinto. Officers responded to the area and attempted to contact an adult male later identified […]
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HEMET – As many as three people, including a juvenile female, were believed to have been shot and a fourth was injured during a shooting incident on Mar. 9. Officers from the Hemet Police Department responded to numerous reports of shots fired at an apartment complex at 201 South Yale Street at 11:39 p.m. Deputies from the Riverside County Sheriff’s […]
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Trevor Montgomery HEMET – Deputies arrested a Hemet resident who was on probation, after he allegedly committed a home invasion robbery and burglary. The incident occurred on Thursday, Feb. 18, according to Riverside Sheriff Sergeant Agcaoili. At about 8:05 a.m., deputies from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Hemet-Valle Vista Station, with assistance from Hemet Police officers, responded to the report of a […]
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UPDATED: 2/15 @ 10 a.m. Writer’s note: An earlier version of this report listed the area where the vehicle and deceased were found as Valle Vista. The incident actually occurred in the unincorporated area of East Hemet. TM EAST HEMET – Deputies from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Hemet-Valle Vista Sheriff’s Station located a woman just before 8 p.m., after […]
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Trevor Montgomery CORONA – A man found unresponsive inside a rented van that contained a note warning of a bomb and “deadly gas” inside the vehicle led to the evacuation of a nearby school, apartment complex, and mobile home park. The incident also forced the closure of several nearby streets and lasted over eight hours. In addition to hundreds of students […]
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Trevor Montgomery After experiencing an increase in reports regarding telephone, financial and other scams, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department is reminding all citizens to be critical of unsolicited telephone calls from potentially fraudulent businesses, banking institutions, foreign countries, or government agencies, especially where promises or threats are made. Numerous fraudulent schemes have recently been reported, according to sheriff’s officials. […]
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Trevor Montgomery UPDATE 3 SAN JACINTO – Rescue operations were successful in assisting three stranded hikers, one of whom was a juvenile. The three were safely extracted off a high mountainous peak overlooking the San Jacinto Valley. The three reportedly became lost and exhausted while hiking in the San Jacinto Mountains. A 911 caller reported at about 4:00 p.m. the three were […]
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Trevor Montgomery Press release from Riverside County Sheriff Department The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department has recently experienced an unusual number of calls for service regarding the theft of U.S. mail. The Department always attempts to identify suspects involved in such thefts and to recover the property stolen from its citizens. Postal inspectors across the country also work hard to […]
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