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The Riverside County Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force (RCAHT) in partnership with the La Quinta Special Enforcement Team, Palm Desert Special Enforcement Team, Lake Elsinore Special Enforcement Team, Temecula Metro Team, Riverside County Gang Task Force Region 6, Riverside Police Department and Homeland Security Investigations effected thirty eight arrests during a nearly week-long proactive enforcement operation that targeted online prostitution and those whose demand for these unlawful activities fuels an illicit underground economy, both locally as well as across the State of California.

With an alarming rise in the number of prescriptionss filled for non-benzo sleeping/z-drugs and anti-epilepsy gabapentinoids over the last two decades, researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health aimed to fill in the gap in knowledge in the proportion of overdose deaths involving those medications and learn more about their co-usage with other substances across U.S. demographics categories.

On February 11, 2022 at 1:00 p.m., members of the Murrieta/Temecula Regional Gang Task Force (Region 4) served a search warrant at a residence in the 26100 block of Truelson Avenue in the unincorporated area of Hemet.

The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department will be hosting a Career Fair and Expedited Hiring Event on Saturday, March 26, 2022 at the Ben Clark Training Center, 16791 Davis Avenue, Riverside CA. The event will take place from 8:00 AM- 1:00 PM and is open to all members of the public.

People of color have had a harder time during the pandemic across the United States, but the state of Texas was particularly slow to offer data on the racial breakdown of cases, deaths and vaccinations.