Monthly Archives: October, 2021

On September 23, 2021 the entire Riverside County Regional Gang Task Force conducted probation / parole compliance checks and saturation patrol throughout the cities of Temecula, Murrieta, Wildomar, Menifee, Lake Elsinore, and Winchester.

On September 30, 2021 at approximately 2:30 p.m., members of the Region 4 Murrieta-Temecula Regional Gang Task Force and members of the Murrieta Police Department’s Special Enforcement Team (SET) served a search warrant at a residence in the 40700 block of Vista Murrieta Road in the city of Murrieta.

On October 5, 2021, at approximately 3:18 a.m., deputies from the Perris Station responded to the 1000 block of Leopard Lane in the city of Perris regarding a home invasion robbery. Upon their arrival, deputies located two armed males walking away from the residence carrying the victim’s property. Deputies detained Arturo Ojeda, a 19-year-old resident of Hemet, and a 17-year-old juvenile from San Jacinto.

Palm Desert Station Burglary Suppression Unit (BSU) conducted further investigation regarding several commercial burglaries that occurred between the dates of September 10, 2021 and September 25, 2021 within the cities of Palm Desert and Rancho Mirage. The suspect in these cases forced his way into locked businesses, taking merchandise from each location.

Prosecutors and defense attorneys have presented competing narratives in the trial of a California police officer accused of shooting and killing a mentally ill man, alternately asking the jury to sympathize with the officer’s need to make split-second decisions or the troubled victim whose only crime was not stopping for police.