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On April 7, 2023, at 8:11 a.m., deputies from the Lake Mathews Sheriff’s Station were dispatched to the 22200 block of Piedras Road in Lake Mathews regarding an unresponsive male adult, later identified as 29-year-old Gorge Sandoval.

On Friday, September 1, 2023, the San Jacinto Station’s Special Enforcement Team served a narcotics-related search warrant in the 400 block of Dover Court in the city of San Jacinto.

On September 1, 2023, at about 8:57 p.m., deputies from the Perris Sheriff Station responded to a residence in the 300 block of W. First St., Perris, regarding a report of a shooting victim.

Interestingly, in the playbook of most Americans, tyranny used to be considered a bad thing. In fact, there are a few of us left who remember a time when the absence of tyranny was exactly what made the people around the world envy us.

The downside of former President Donald Trump’s deciding to employ a political strategy, aimed at maximizing the chance of his reelection in November 2024, rather than a purely legal strategy — aimed at maximizing the chances of his acquittal on criminal charges — came into sharp relief on Monday.