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SHERIFF’S DEPUTY ARRESTED IN PASADENA Collins agreed to provide security for narcotics shipments A Los Angeles County deputy sheriff who allegedly agreed on two occasions to oversee the delivery of narcotics and other contraband in exchange for cash payments was arrested this morning, along with three other men, on federal narcotics charges. Special agents with the Federal Bureau Investigation this morning arrested Deputy Sheriff Kenneth Collins and the other three after they arrived in Pasadena, allegedly to provide “security” for the transport of nearly 45 pounds of cocaine and more than 13 pounds of methamphetamine. During the FBI’s undercover investigation, Collins allegedly agreed that he and his team would accompany the narcotics and take calculated steps to prevent legitimate law enforcement from intercepting the drugs – in exchange for cash payments as high as $250,000. Collins and two other men were charged in a federal criminal complaint. Collins and two co-defendants allegedly provided security in November for the transport of what they thought was six kilograms of methamphetamine, as well as marijuana and counterfeit cigarettes. SEE PAGE 3
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Man Sentenced To Life For Killing 5 People At Long Beach Homeless Camp
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A gang member was sentenced for murdering five people at a Long Beach homeless encampment in 2008, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced. Max Eliseo Rafael, 31, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole by Los Angeles County
Superior Court Judge Charlaine Olmedo. Rafael and 37-year-old David Cruz Ponce were found guilty in September 2017 of five counts of murder and one count of kidnapping. The jury also found true the special circumstance allegations of multiple murders, murder during
a kidnapping and murder while the defendants were active participants in a criminal street gang. Ponce also was found guilty of an additional count of murder and kidnapping and two counts of possession of a firearm by a felon. Deputy District Attorney
Cynthia Barnes of the Major Crimes Division prosecuted the case. Ponce and Rafael fatally shot Lorenzo Villicana, Katherine Verdun, Hamid Shraifat, Frederick Neumeier and Vanessa Malaepule on Nov. 1,
gram, minor decoys, enter a business and attempt to purchase alcohol directly from the store clerk or cashier. The minors are directed to show their California driver’s license, California identification card, or tell the employee their age if asked. The sale of alcohol to a minor is a criminal offense
and the business is subject to administrative penalties by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, including the suspension or revocation of their license to sell alcoholic beverages. When the Minor Decoy program first began in the 1980s, the violation rate of
On January 15, 2018, at approximately 7:44 am, deputies from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Central Station responded to a fire call at Glen Helen Regional Park. While in route to the call, deputies learned that additional fires were being reported near the regional park at the Interstate 15/215 junction. In total, eleven fires were started
by Whipple. After each fire was started, Whipple ran through a series a storm drain tunnels underneath the freeways to elude capture from the deputies. With the assistance of Sheriff’s aviation, Whipple was located as he walked through the dense brush near Cajon Blvd and Kenwood Ave in close proximity of the last
ANAHEIM POLICE DEPARTMENT CONDUCTS MINOR DECOY OPERATION The Anaheim Police Department’s Vice Unit conducted a Minor Decoy Operation at nine Anaheim locations on Jan. 11, 2018. The operation did not result in any citations. Decoy Operations target retail establishments that have Department of Alcoholic Beverage licenses. Under the pro-
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Charges Filed In Riverside Torture Case Couple Faces 94 Years in Prison Thursday, Jan. 18, 2018, District Attorney Mike Hestrin announced that charges have been filed against a husband and wife in the case of 13 siblings found in horrific conditions in a Perris residence with some of the children chained to furniture. David Allen Turpin, DOB: 10-17-61; and his wife, Louise Ann Turpin, DOB: 5-24-68, have each been charged with 12 counts of torture, 12 counts of false imprisonment, seven counts of abuse of a dependent adult, and six counts of child abuse. David Turpin also has been charged with one count of a lewd act on a child under the age of 14 by force, fear, or duress. If convicted as currently charged, each defendant faces a potential sentence of about 94 years to life in prison. The crimes both are charged with committing happened from 2010 to the time of their arrests. They moved from the Ft. Worth area in Texas to Murrieta in 2010 and then to Perris about four years SEE PAGE 2
Fontana Man Arrested For Setting 11 Fires In The San Bernardino Area fire.
Deputies contacted Whipple, who was detained at the scene without incident. Several items of evidence were located which connected Whipple to the crime of arson. The areas Whipple set on fire burned dry vegetation and caused a multi-jurisdictional SEE PAGE 4