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On Friday, March 25, 2022, at 1:52 PM, the Jurupa Valley Special Enforcement Team served a search warrant at the 4600 block of Galena St, Jurupa Valley, regarding a sex trafficking investigation.

On Friday, March 25, 2022, deputies from the Southwest Station began an investigation into allegations of a sexual assault against a teenage victim. The investigation revealed the suspect, identified as Jason Anderson, a 22-year-old resident of Wildomar, is an employee of American Medical Response (AMR) transportation company.

California cities are deep in the process of planning for a lot of housing right now. Every eight years, the state’s Housing and Community Development Department directs cities to develop plans to build the number of homes the state projects they’ll need to accommodate the growing population. This cycle, the department has asked them to identify spots for about 2.5 million new homes by 2030 – double their last goal.

California’s housing crisis can seem insurmountable. The median home price is more than $800,000, the state needs millions of additional homes to give everyone a place to live and homelessness is on the rise. Progress is abysmal. The state called for the construction of 180,000 new units annually between 2015 and 2025 to close the gap. We built fewer than half as many, only about 80,000 new units per year.

For the first time in a long time, the Hemet City Council did not exceed the time allowed for a meeting. Reporting out of closed session, they announced that no action was taken on a conference with labor negotiators nor an existing litigation matter.