Crime & Incidents

Search Warrant

In March 2021, the Lake Elsinore Sheriff’s Station Special Enforcement Team (SET), began an investigation into the sales of narcotics in Lake Elsinore and surrounding communities. During this Investigation, Dennis McBride (age 61) a resident of Lake Elsinore, was identified as a person of interest in the sales of narcotics.

Illegal Marijuana Cultivation

On Tuesday, March 30, 2021, members from the Southwest Agricultural Liaison Unit, Special Enforcement Team (SET), and Homeless Outreach Team (HOT), served a search warrant at an illegal marijuana cultivation operating at a private residence in the unincorporated area of Riverside County know as Winchester. The search warrant was authored in response to citizen complaints about the residence.

Man charged with throwing rocks at Asian woman, child in car

FULLERTON, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California man has been charged with throwing rocks at an Asian woman and her 6-year-old son as they drove down the street last month, authorities said Monday.

Car that plunged off California cliff drove through big lot

BODEGA BAY, Calif. (AP) — Dozens of people at a popular Northern California coastal overlook watched as an SUV drove through a parking lot without braking and then plunged off a cliff into the rocks below, killing two women, investigators said Monday.

Mainstream media fell short in Atlanta shooting coverage, activists say

Many articles neglected to center on the fact that six of the eight victims were Asian women and avoided the connection to the surge in anti-Asian violence over the past year, said Elaine Sanchez Wilson, the director of communications and development at the Southeast Asia Resource Action Center, a civil rights nonprofit.

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