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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced today it has administered initial COVID-19 vaccine doses to more than 14,000 Veterans at high risk of getting COVID-19 infection, and more than 132,000 health care employees as of Jan. 4.

On Thursday, December 31, 2020, at 4:59 PM, Riverside County Regional Gang Task Force Officers conducted a traffic enforcement stop at Ramsey Street and Sunset Avenue in the city of Banning. During the traffic stop it was discovered the driver, Jason Hammer a 42-year-old resident of the city of Banning, was in possession of drug paraphernalia.

On January 5th, 2021, at 7:00 A.M., deputies assigned to the Coachella Community Action Team (CCAT), with the assistance of the Coachella Valley Narcotic Task Force (CVNTF), served a search warrant at a residence in the 85200 block of Avenue 55 in the unincorporated area of Thermal. The search warrant stemmed from a robbery at gunpoint incident which occurred on December 27th, 2020 in the 53500 block of Cesar Chavez in the city of Coachella.

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On Saturday, January 2nd, 2021, at 6:34 P.M., members of the Riverside County Regional Gang Task Force Region 6 conducted a traffic stop in the 200 block of Jarvis Street, in the city of Perris. Deputies contacted Mark Trammel, a 27-year-old resident of Perris. Deputies discovered Trammel was on probation for possession of a firearm.