Members of the Jurupa Valley Station’s Special Enforcement Teams (SET) representing the cities of Jurupa Valley and Eastvale have been aggressively targeting illegal indoor marijuana grows throughout the cities of Jurupa Valley and Eastvale in 2020.
In September 2020, deputies assigned to the Lake Elsinore Sheriff’s Station Problem Oriented Policing Team received information regarding illegal narcotic sales occurring in the city of Lake Elsinore.
An illegal marijuana growing operation where seven people were fatally shot in a small, rural Southern California town had the markings of organized crime, authorities said Tuesday.
On August 10, 2020, Deputies from the Lake Elsinore Sheriff’s station conducted an enforcement stop on a gray Mercedes for a traffic violation. A records check revealed the Mercedes was stolen out of the city of San Jacinto. The occupants, Claire Miller and Eduardo Nieto, were taken into custody without incident. Claire Miller was also in possession of drug paraphernalia.
On Saturday, July 25, 2020, personnel from the San Jacinto Sheriff’s Station served five search warrants related to illegal indoor residential marijuana grows and marijuana sales. During the warrant service, a total of approximately 4600 plants were eradicated from these residences along with 40 pounds of processed marijuana.
Mason Drew Kohler, 31, was booked on felony murder, hit-and-run death, and DUI charges, according to the Riverside County jail roster, which lists a Hemet PD arrest at Palm Avenue and Commonwealth Avenue. Hemet police say two pedestrians on an electric scooter were struck there about 6:55 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 22; one was pronounced dead. Police have not named the driver, and the decedent's identity remains withheld.
The San Jacinto Planning Commission voted 3-0 Tuesday to recommend two sphere-of-influence annexations to the City Council, including Tentative Tract Map 34271 for 151 single-family lots south of Ramona Expressway. Neither file is a completed annexation.
Shooters Sports Bar & Grill at 121 E. Florida Ave. was approved Sept. 22 to open back to full permit status, and the A placard was re-posted. The county report lists a manual score of 92, with no live or dead cockroach activity observed and a surveillance recheck by Sept. 29.