San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department to get more body-worn cams
By Joe Taglieri joet@beaconmedianews.com
Sheriff’s deputies who work in San Bernardino County jails will soon be equipped with body-worn cameras, county officials said Wednesday.
The sheriff’s department and Rep. Young Kim, R-Chino Hills, announced she had secured the $1.5 million in federal funding for the new cameras earlier this month.
“What these bodyworn cameras do is provide evidence, whether it’s evidence to help convict the suspects or evidence for a crime scene,” San Bernardino County Sheriff Shannon Dicus said in a video announcing the new cameras. “And the other side of that is also the transparency for the public.”
A sheriff’s department statement said body-worn cameras have been a priority for the department that shows its “commitment to upholding the highest standards of professionalism and public trust.”
The sheriff’s department started deploying body worn cameras in August 2023, county spokeswoman Gloria Huerta said in an email to the San Bernardino Press. Initially cameras went to patrol stations early this year, then a second phase of deployment to specialized divisions and resident posts began in July.
Approximately 1000 bodyworn cameras currently are in use by those divisions.
This latest round of funding enables completion of a third phase to equip corrections deputies with body-worn cameras, Huerta said. The $1.5 million secured by Kim will purchase 200 cameras and pay for installing infrastructure to support the new cams. The corrections roll-out is expected to complete by September 2025.
“Our law enforcement put themselves in harm’s way to
keep our communities safe,” Kim said in a statement.
LRiverside County dedicates Hamner Avenue project’s Berwin Hanna Bridge
By Joe Taglieri joet@beaconmedianews.com
ocalofficialsand communitymembers onMondaydedicated the recently renovated Hamner Avenue bridge to former Norco Mayor Berwin Hanna.
An event at Eastvale Community Park officially cut the ribbon on the Hamner Avenue Bridge and Widening Project. Construction on the 85-year-old bridge in Norco began in January 2021.
and hydraulic state-of-theart design,” according to a Riverside County statement. The bridge’s roadway now includes shoulders and a median that is 4 feet wide. It also now has a new 12-foot-wide, separated multipurpose trail on the bridge’s east side. Officials expect the trail to open later this summer, providing equestrians, pedestrians and cyclists with a safe path across the bridge and access to the Santa Ana River Trail. The project’s cost was $71 million from federal, state and local funding sources.
“I am proud to secure vital federal resources for the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department to purchase body camera and taser equipment, so law enforcement can better do their jobs and ensure deputies follow accountability practices. Protecting public safety will always be a top priority for me as your representative.”
the cameras shows a shared commitment to advancing public safety and equipping deputies with the necessary tools to effectively perform their duties.
and advocacy.”
District 4 Supervisor Curt Hagman said in a statement, “This funding represents a major milestone in our ongoing efforts to enhance public safety through advanced technology. Collaborating with Congresswoman Young Kim has enabled us to secure the essential resources needed to enhance officer safety and strengthen community trust. By equipping our deputies with these state-of-the-art body cameras, we’re setting a new standard for transparency and accountability in law enforcement.”
The funding was part of the 2024 Consolidated Appropriations Act, a package of six federal spending bills for the current fiscal year that funds a wide range of local projects nationwide.
Hamner Avenue is a major artery and alternate route to Interstate 15 that connects Corona, Norco, Eastvale and cities in San Bernardino County to the north, and officials expect traffic to increase with population growth over time.
The new 1,200-foot bridge stretches across the Santa Ana River and “features structural, seismic
Sheriff’s and county officials said Kim’s dedication to obtaining the funding for
“Public safety, public trust, and providing law enforcement with the resources they need are among San Bernardino County’s highest priorities,” Board of Supervisors Chairman and 3rd District Supervisor Dawn Rowe said in a statement.
“We are grateful to Congresswoman Kim for her support
The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department describes itself as the law enforcement agency for the nation’s largest geographical county, serving more than 2.1 million residents via eight county stations and 14 stations in contract cities. The department has over 4,200 employees.
Speakers at the ribboncutting and dedication event included Riverside County 2nd District Supervisor Karen Spiegel, Rep. Ken Calvert, D-Corona, Riverside County Transportation Commission Executive Director
Higher temps in forecast across region to start September
By City News Service
Triple-digit heat is returning to the forecast for the Riverside metropolitan area to start September, according to the National Weather Service.
The agency said that beginning Tuesday and continuing to the end of this week, temperatures “five to 10 degrees above average” will be prevalent across the Inland Empire. NWS surface prognostication charts indicated that ridges of high pressure moving through the Great Basin of Nevada and Utah will influence weather patterns after Labor Day.
No heat advisories have been issued.
In the Riverside metropolitan area, daytime temperatures for the remainder of this week will top out in the low- to mid-90s, but the mercury is forecast to cross the 100-degree mark next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, with overnight lows generally in the mid 60s.
In the Coachella Valley, the temperature swings won’t
Two San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputies, at left, display body-worn cameras. | Photo courtesy of San Bernardino County/YouTube
From left, Supervisor Curt Hagman, Rep. Young Kim and Sheriff Shannon Dicus. | Photo courtesy of San Bernardino County/YouTube
Baldwin Park shelter resumes normal operations after strep zoo
By Staff
The Baldwin Park Animal Care Center resumed normal operations on Aug. 23 following a strep zoo outbreak, Los Angeles County animal control officials announced.
Strep zoo is a bacterium normally found in horses, cattle and pigs that rarely causes disease, but it can cause severe pneumonia in immunocompromised dogs such as those in living stressful shelters. The disease shows few warning signs, and no vaccine exists.
Eleven dogs tested positive in early August for strep zoo at the Baldwin Park facility, an animal control spokeswoman told the Whittier Daily News.
After officials from the the LA County Department of Animal Care and Control identified the outbreak, to stop the spread of disease they did extensive deep cleaning of the facility, “rigorous testing and treatment” and diverted new animal “intakes” to the county’s Carson and Downey shelters.
All dogs at the Baldwin Park facility have been treated with antibiotics, and deep cleaning has been
completed, officials said. No new positive strep zoo infections were reported in the last seven days as of Aug. 22.
“By reaching these benchmarks, the Care Center was cleared to resume intakes,” according to a county statement.
Pet adoptions and other community services contin-
ued at the shelter during the outbreak, with shelter personnel offering additional counseling to adopters on strep zoo signs, symptoms and treatment options.
Another strep zoo outbreak at LA County shelters occurred in April at the Downey Animal Care Center.
Man gets 23 years
for hate crimes vs. Hispanic men
By City News Service
A37-year-old homeless man with a long arrest history has been sentenced to over 23 years in state prison for multiple hate-related assaults in Los Angeles and Santa Monica, authorities announced Wednesday.
Kevin Mumin was arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department in August 2023 for multiple felony assaults with hate crime allegations. Santa Monica police had also identified him as the suspect in two attacks targeting Hispanic men in that city, according to the Santa Monica Police
Department.
Mumin was found guilty earlier this month of three counts of assault with a deadly weapon, with enhancements for great bodily injury and hate crimes. He was also convicted of one count of felony sexual battery stemming from one of the Los Angeles incidents, according to the SMPD.
He was sentenced on Aug. 21 of this year to 23 years and 8 months in state prison.
Santa Monica police said that on Aug. 20, officers found a victim struck on the head with a large wooden stick in the 3100 block of
Main Street. Two days later, a second victim said the suspect tried to punch him in the face and threw a glass bottle at him in the 1400 block of Palisades Park.
The SMPD jointly filed their cases with the LAPD after Mumin’s arrest. He had prior arrests for robbery, assault with a deadly weapon, burglary, criminal threats and narcotics sales.
Anyone with additional information about Mumin was asked to contact Detective Brian Spencer of the SMPD at 310-458-8420 or Sgt. Shaun Cooney at 310-458-8436.
Rose Bowl Game tickets on sale
By City News Service
Tickets for the Jan. 1 Rose Bowl Game are on sale online via Ticketmaster. A maximum of four tickets per person will be available. Individual ticket prices start at $190.95, including fees.
The game is no longer a so-called contractual sellout, with the Pac-12 and Big Ten conferences and Tournament of Roses receiving tickets -- and so the number of tickets available through the public sale will be “much larger than in previous years,” Karen Linhart, the Rose Bowl Game marketing & media director, told City News Service.
The Rose Bowl Game will serve as a College Football Playoff quarterfinal for the 2024-25 season, and is expected to include the Big Ten Conference champion.
Under rules of the expanded 12-team playoff, the four highest-ranked conference champions will be seeded one through four and assigned to bowls in consideration of historic bowl relationships.
The other team will be the winner of a first-round playoff game played Dec. 20 or Dec 21.
The dog kennels at the Baldwin Park Animal Care Center. | Photo courtesy of the LA County Department of Animal Care and Control
| Photo courtesy of Santa Monica Police Department
The 102nd Rose Bowl Game. | Photo by Michael Li CC BY-NC 2.0
Firebirds sign ECHL’s rookie scoring leader Cade Borchardt
By City News Service
The Coachella Valley Firebirds on Thursday announced the signing of center Cade Borchardt, the ECHL’s leading scorer among rookies in the 2023-24 season.
Borchardt had 77 points on 24 goals and 53 assists in 71 regular-season games with the Kansas City Mavericks, the ECHL affiliate of the Firebirds’ NHL parent team,
the Seattle Kraken, and was selected for the league’s AllRookie Team.
The Burnsville, Minnesota native had five goals and six assists in 18 playoff games as Kansas City advanced to the Kelly Cup Finals, where it lost the best-of-seven series to the Florida Everblades four games to one.
The 26-year-old is the third member of the Maver-
icks to sign with the Firebirds during the offseason, joining goaltender Jack LaFontaine and center Max Andreev. Borchardt had 29 goals and 56 assists in 121 games in four seasons with Minnesota State University Mankato after playing junior hockey with the United States Hockey League’s Sioux Falls Stampede and Madison Capitols.
MoVal Ponzi scheme operator bound for
federal prison
By City News Service
A61-year-old Moreno Valley man who ran a Ponzi scheme that netted over $20 million from unsuspecting investors was bound for federal prison Tuesday to serve 15 years, eight months behind bars.
Paul Horton Smith Sr. pleaded guilty in early January to wire fraud under an agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
During a hearing Monday at U.S. District Court in Riverside, Judge Jesus Bernal imposed the prison sentence and ordered him to pay $13.33 million in restitution.
“This defendant’s greed and deceit caused major losses for his victims, who discovered that the supposed gains for their retirement were nothing more than a lie,” U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada said in a statement. “My office will continue to aggressively prosecute fraudsters who take advantage of victims in our community, and I also encourage everyone to use caution and skepticism with regard to any investments.”
All of Smith’s companies, operating under the Northstar Communications umbrella, were shut down by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in 2020.
According to federal prosecutors, Smith operated a Ponzi scheme from July 2000 to May 2020, when he was arrested.
He defrauded at least 200 investors, procuring roughly $24 million in ill-gotten gains, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
Instead of investing funds lodged in Northstar and subsidiary accounts, he shelled out money received from new investors to satisfy rates of return guaranteed to earlier ones, never turning an honest profit, according to the government.
“Smith communicated with the victim investors regarding Northstar in person, over the telephone and via email and text messages,” according to a U.S. Attorney’s Office statement. “He falsely told investors that Northstar was an annuity or an investmentlike annuity. He falsely told other investors that Northstar invested in real estate or followed the stock market. He typically told investors that their investment would generate a fixed rate of return and was a `safe investment.”’
He maintained funds in a non-interest-bearing checking account.
The defendant said during a February 2020 workshop, “Your pockets aren’t going to get picked, OK?” according to the SEC.
“Smith ... advertised himself on his website as a chartered senior financial planner and ... also conducted free seminars via Planning Services Inc. at various locations around
the Riverside area, where he discussed estate planning, trust creation to protect assets and other financial matters,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
Court papers offered examples of what happened to the victims, including a 70-year-old woman who went to church with Smith and turned over $175,000 for him to invest.
“Instead of investing the victim’s money, Smith transferred her funds to other investors, and he used her money to pay off the other investors’ tax bills with the IRS and the California Franchise Tax Board,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. In another example, the defendant persuaded a client to invest $400,000 in proceeds from a life insurance payout arising from the death of a spouse.
“Smith promised the victim he would invest the $400,000 in an investment with a 5% rate of return,” the government said. “Instead, he transferred the funds to pay other victims of his Ponzi scheme. In an attempt to conceal his criminal activity, Smith made 11 payments to the victim that totaled $163,324.”
Some of those swindled were ultimately able to recover their losses under court order. However, 106 victims haven’t recovered all of their money and remain owed a total of $13 million, prosecutors said.
Cade Borchardt. | Photo courtesy of the ECHL
| Photo courtesy of Nick Youngson/Pix4free (CC BY-SA 3.0)
American militia
City, killing 168 people and injuring hundreds more. The modern militia movement — loosely speaking, a wide variety of groups whose shared traits are military-style training, an affinity for guns and a belief that they are the last line of defense against the excesses of the government and the left — started in the early 1990s and had been growing rapidly. But after the bombing, the movement crumbled. It didn’t recover until 2008, when a financial crisis and Barack Obama’s presidential election kindled a new generation of leaders like Seddon.
But the political climate after Jan. 6 would be very different from the period after McVeigh’s attack. Soon, Seddon’s group would have momentum back on its side.
Lions and Men
Seddon seems like an unlikely commander of a paramilitary organization. Raised in the suburbs of Long Island, he bounced between jobs through his early 40s, including stints as the manager for a small-time rapper and as a model. Seddon appeared on book jackets, including a vampire romance novel titled “Love’s Last Bite.” And there he was, in an awkward shirtless pose with a woman in lingerie, on the cover of “How to Handle a Younger Man: A Collection of Five Erotic Stories.”
It was in internet forums for models, during the latter years of the George W. Bush administration, where Seddon’s right-wing politics started to emerge publicly. He would engage in lengthy sparring with his peers, heckling them with insults: “we dominate you libs” and “you SOUND LIKE A FRENCHMEN need I say more?”
Seddon grew increasingly alienated — he would later say that he felt “very alone” after Obama was elected — and engaged. He became active on a Facebook page to support Iraq War veterans. And then, during Obama’s first term, he used that as a launchpad to create AP3. At the time, Seddon did not yet own a firearm, according to one of his first recruits.
Like many militias, AP3 was suffused with a military ethos. It adopted the hierarchy and nomenclature, with ranks such as “command sergeant major.” One credential most conferred authority: military service.
Seddon described himself as a veteran and, in a public resume, stated that he had served in Operation Desert Storm. He would tell Army stories to AP3 members and show them a photo of himself as a young soldier. Even his closest confidants in the group were left with the impres-
sion that he had substantial military experience.
But Seddon did not, in fact, serve in a combat zone. He joined the Army Reserve, without any prior stint in the military, more than a year after Desert Storm was over, according to his discharge papers and military personnel records. His active-duty tenure lasted for five months, the documents say, and ended when he finished his initial training.
Seddon declined to be interviewed for this article. Presented with an extensive list of written questions, he responded, “Lions do not concern themselves with the opinions of men.”
“J6 Made Me Want to Join”
Seddon’s vision for AP3 was novel for the time: a national organization, with chapters across the country operating under his command. After Obama announced a plan for tougher gun control in his second term, membership exploded, former leaders said. One told ProPublica that their local chapter grew from four or five people to over 200 in less than a year.
By 2016, AP3 had an active presence in 48 states, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center — larger than any other organization the antiextremism watchdog was tracking. AP3 was part of the loose confederation known as the Three Percenters, a set of right-wing groups that take their name from the claim that only 3% of colonists fought in the American Revolution. At its peak, by Seddon’s likely exaggerated count, AP3 had 40,000 to 50,000 members.
After the Jan. 6 riot, insiders and experts estimate the total was, at most, in the low thousands.
Seddon set about rebuilding the group in 2021. It was difficult initially and made even harder by his own struggles. When the pandemic started, he had a job as a doctor’s technician in New York City, but he refused to get vaccinated and left the medical field. He tried to get licensed as a realtor, then as a personal trainer, and found gig economy work near Scranton, Pennsylvania. He often recorded video directives to his troops from his car while driving between deliveries for Uber Eats. He began reinvigorating the remnants of his command. His communications offered a mix of elements that his followers found compelling. There was lots of posturing: “Fuck the federal government,” he offered as an opener in one video. “These rats, these devils,” he said in
another, “the only way they’re going to start listening is fear.” But Seddon also hailed his members as patriots, heroes, and praised their deeds with an “awesome job bro.” Seddon traveled the country. He would drop by at AP3’s training exercises, where veterans might teach close-quarters gun combat at an abandoned car dealership or lead sniper rifle practice at a suburban ranch. Recruiting new members and unifying the old ones — a disparate roster that brought together men with white nationalist ties and Black military vets — demanded constant effort. Seddon avoided getting pinned down on one controversial question: what precisely his group’s purpose was. “Resisting all efforts to undermine our constitution and the American way of life,” AP3’s mission statement read, at once lofty and vague. “Together we will return our country to the glory it once was.” Many members were furious about COVID-19 restrictions and the “LGBTQ agenda.” Gun control, they thought, was an injustice that might be worth dying over. But Seddon imposed no litmus test. “We have some [members] that are fixated on Muslims,” as one leader put it. “Most are fixated on Antifa and BLM.”
Under Seddon, AP3 was both an armed right-wing resistance group and something akin to a Rotary Club; camaraderie was as important a draw as ideology. AP3 members patrolled city streets with AR-15-style rifles and baseball bats during Black Lives Matters protests. They practiced attacking dummies with knives. But they also taught each other how to save money on groceries through gardening and organized seminars where they wrote reports on each Constitutional amendment. One member said the group dispatched trucks filled with clothes and furniture to his family after a wildfire destroyed their house. AP3 had its own monthly magazine, with militia news in the front pages and word games for kids in the back. By August 2021, Seddon’s lieutenants noticed that the backlash to the Capitol riot was starting to dissipate. A new type of member was signing up. “J6 made me want to join,” a recruit wrote that month in a Telegram channel. He hadn’t been part of a militia before, he explained, but seeing how “true Patriots” were being treated, “it was time to actually do something.”
Seddon sought ways to capitalize on the improving political climate. In Alabama,
members fanned out to shops around the state, where they dropped off stacks of business cards encouraging patriots to “do your part.” “The APIII Alabama Recruitment line has rang non stop today,” a leader reported back afterward. “I honestly wasn’t expecting it to get this big.”
In Washington state, AP3 members in the military reserves touted the militia to fellow reservists during their units’ regular monthly drills. One chapter looked into purchasing billboard ads. In internal chats, many members agreed the “best place to recruit” is Veterans Affairs facilities.
By the fall, they had arrived at a more efficient method. Facebook’s public posture hadn’t wavered. AP3 was still on its list of banned “dangerous organizations.” Again and again in press releases, the company said its efforts to combat militias were stronger than ever.
Inside AP3, though, leaders were seeing something different: The social media giant was gradually loosening its controls.
A Meta spokesperson said Facebook was still actively working to keep AP3 off its platform. “This is an adversarial space,” she said, “and we often see instances of groups or individuals taking on new tactics to avoid detection and evade our policies and enforcement.”
Seddon would soon tell leaders there were “huge opportunities to recruit using Facebook” again. AP3 experienced such an influx of aspiring members that leaders struggled to keep up.
“GUYS WE REALLY NEED SOME HELP,” one of Seddon’s deputies wrote in a typical appeal in an internal chat. “GOT 175 PEOPLE WAITING TO GET IN.”
It was a sorely needed shot of adrenaline.
“Our Force Multiplier”
In the view of many AP3 leaders, their chances of success hinged on building alliances with another heavily armed sector of society: police and sheriffs’ departments. If they couldn’t get the agencies to fight alongside them, they at least needed the cops to leave them alone. Many organizations like AP3 share this approach; a leaked FBI counterterrorism guide from 2015 noted that investigations of “militia extremists” often find “active links to law enforcement officers.” The details of those efforts rarely come into public view.
One test of that strategy occurred in Kenosha, Wisconsin, as the prosecution of Kyle Rittenhouse was winding to a close in 2021. When Black Lives Matter protests and civil unrest overtook Kenosha the
American militia
year before, Rittenhouse had ventured into the scrum with a semiautomatic rifle and killed two people. Prosecutors called it murder; Rittenhouse called it self-defense. Within AP3, he’d become a folk hero.
“Kyle represents every one of us,” one leader said. In September 2021, with Rittenhouse’s trial two months away, AP3 leaders were preparing for what would happen after the verdict. If he were acquitted, there might be riots in Kenosha. And if there were riots, the militia might deploy a team that could be in the same position as Rittenhouse had been in, walking armed into a volatile situation. They wanted local law enforcement on their side.
The head of AP3’s Wisconsin chapter, a truck driver, had already contacted the Kenosha County sheriff. He’d invited a couple of local officers over for beers, too. The sheriff wasn’t interested in help from a militia, the chapter head reported in an internal chat. (The sheriff did not respond to attempts to seek comment.)
Seddon told him he wasn’t trying hard enough: “I hate these kind of excuses.”
On Sept. 20, Seddon recorded a speech with more full-throated instructions for courting law enforcement. He already had officers as members: One AP3 leader in Alabama would send video messages while driving in his police uniform. Seddon wanted to move up the chain of command. “We need to pick the good apples and we need to have them infiltrate the minds of those on the inside that stand on the fence,” he said. “It’s like building an army.”
He knew that was harder to achieve when you’re seen as anti-government extremists. So Seddon had created a playbook for presenting AP3 as a misunderstood club for
good Samaritans. Leaders encouraged members to get local police departments involved in AP3’s food drives for homeless people. Seddon emphasized that these community service projects, a source of pride for many members, were invaluable public relations coups.
His members distributed brochures — “WE ARE NOT A MILITIA!!!!!” they declared — at rallies and to police officers. This was a branding decision to make people like cops feel comfortable supporting or joining AP3, Seddon said in internal messages, even though “we all know better.”
Seddon pushed members to contact sheriffs in their regions and had his deputies send Excel spreadsheets to the militia’s rank and file. The documents listed every sheriff in each member’s state, with columns to mark whether they were Republicans and “friendly.”
Sometimes it came easily. During the 2022 election, the county where Burley Ross, head of AP3’s North Carolina chapter, lived had an open seat for sheriff. In an interview with ProPublica, Ross said he approached both candidates and asked: If the federal government wanted you to take someone’s guns, what would you do?
“I’m 100% not taking someone’s guns,” Scott Hammonds, the Republican candidate, responded, according to Ross. When his Democratic opponent said he’d enforce the law, Ross suggested that if he tried that, someone would leave the encounter in a body bag.
Hammonds won. Then as sheriff, he became an “off the books” member of AP3, according to messages Ross sent in internal chats. Some of Hammonds’ deputies started training with the group, Ross wrote. “For us to train with
the deputies, that’s a plus for us,” he told ProPublica, “because we understand how they work.” ProPublica could not independently confirm Hammonds’ relationship with the group. Hammonds did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
Police officers weren’t the only ones quietly allying with AP3. Some lawmakers did, too. Among them was a North Carolina state legislator who was an off-the-books member, Ross wrote in an internal chat. It was Keith Kidwell, leader of the state House Freedom Caucus. (Ross asked ProPublica to make clear he did not name Kidwell or Hammonds in interviews and that ProPublica identified them using the AP3 messages it obtained. Kidwell did not respond to requests for comment.)
AP3’s “commanding officer” in Oklahoma, Ed Eubanks, took an especially calculated approach to cultivating ties with police. A competitive shooter who said he’d been a sniper in the Special Forces, Eubanks was older than most in the militia, in his 60s and retired. He was an “outcast” in his liberal family, he wrote to a group of about 100 militia members, echoing a common theme in the group. He had a lot of time to dedicate to AP3.
Eubanks announced in a 2021 internal chat that he was setting up “a PR team to start making inroads” with law enforcement across Oklahoma. He let officers use shooting ranges on his property. He built a barbecue smoker with “APIII” on the side to use for meet-andgreets with police departments. It was just the sort of creativity Seddon was hoping for.
Eubanks would claim success with multiple law enforcement agencies, partic-
AP3’s ties to the Oklahoma City police, but Eubanks contended in a message that his efforts were “worth every second.” As he put it in another message, “This will be our force multiplier when the time arises.”
AP3 on Patrol By mid-2022, Seddon was growing ebullient. He’d toned down his drinking, he told his comrades. In videos, he looked clean cut and slimmed down. Recruiting was booming, with as many as 50 people applying each day. His members were providing security details for county GOP events again. And the militia’s first major operation since the Capitol riot was well underway.
ularly the Oklahoma City police force. Messages from 2020 show the courtship in its beginnings. Eubanks described his plans to stage a counterprotest at an upcoming “defund the police” rally in Oklahoma City in order to “build a better relationship with the OKCPD.” After the rally, Eubanks reported that he had made connections with city police officers who would be giving him intel (and barbecue — they’d invited AP3 members to a cookout at police union headquarters after the event).
In the years that followed, the invitations to functions at the union lodge continued, according to messages from Eubanks and another AP3 member. Eubanks said police notified him when rallies were happening and that the militia got “minute by minute updates” from officers at some events.
A spokesperson for the Oklahoma City police department said it was “going to pass” on a request for an interview and did not respond to detailed written questions.
Mark Nelson, president of the local Fraternal Order of Police, said that AP3 was never invited to an official union event, but that officers can host private events at the union lodge and he would “have no idea” who was invited. In response to detailed questions, Eubanks declined to comment.
One of Eubanks’ members said he pretended to be a Black Lives Matter supporter at one protest in the city because police had asked AP3 to embed a member inside BLM and report back. “The demonic presence there when the leaders showed up,” the member wrote, “was downright oppressive.”
ProPublica could not determine the full extent of
Seddon had sounded a call to arms in late 2021. Illegal border crossings were surging, and the Texas governor had declared that his state was “abandoned” by the federal government. “Our country is being invaded at the Southern border,” Seddon said. “Haitians, Middle Easterners, South American invaders that are coming in.” He had about 20 members preparing to deploy to Quemado, Texas, he said, and was seeking more volunteers.
Anyone interested would need to bring an AR-15-style carbine and a semiautomatic pistol. They would conduct vigilante patrols, a regular feature at the border since the 1970s. Another leader explained the rules. “It is a felony to detain these folks under Texas law,” he said. “We can only report to the authorities, but we are allowed to carry live rounds.”
Many members said they didn’t want to go if they couldn’t kill migrants. “The most heard comment I get” is “there is only one way to stop them,” one leader told Seddon. AP3 joined forces with another militia and soon had members in Quemado, sleeping at a Christian charity 1,000 feet from the Rio Grande.
The charity’s leaders, terrified of the Mexican cartels that helped transport some migrants, were initially grateful for the support. They put the militiamen up in twin bunk beds in little rooms that resembled a hospital ward. AP3 would keep a presence at the border for at least the next year and a half. Their members caught migrants and turned them over to the authorities. In time, messages claim, they were patrolling over 10,000 acres of land.
Eubanks helped lead the operation. At night, he’d split members up to cover more ground. Then he would don camouflage fatigues and venture alone into the pitch
Proud Boys on Jan. 6, 2021. | Photo by Elvert Barnes CC BY-SA 2.0
darkness, a shotgun in his hand.
In internal chats, Eubanks bragged about the allies they’d cultivated, including Brad Coe, a cowboy-hat-wearing local sheriff who had publicly praised border militias and regularly discussed immigration on Fox News. Coe shared intel with him and discussed the idea of Eubanks “running a bush team to track the cartel,” Eubanks told Seddon and others. Eubanks complained in the chats that the Texas Department of Public Safety was “refusing to work with us” but said AP3 was collaborating with the Border Patrol and the National Guard, who installed “observation pads for us to use along the river.”
The partnerships didn’t always go smoothly. Once, an AP3 member got into an argument with a National Guardsman that turned physical. “He kicked the shit out of the national guardsman,” Ross, who helped coordinate the operation, told ProPublica. “I called him and said, ‘You cannot beat up the national guardsmen any more.’” (Local law enforcement arrived but decided not to make any arrests, according to Ross.)
Coe did not respond to requests for comment. A Border Patrol spokesperson did not address ProPublica’s questions about its agents but said that civilians “involving themselves in border security related activities” is “unlawful” and “dangerous.” In response to detailed questions, the Texas Military Department, which oversees the Texas National Guard, issued a one-sentence statement: “The Texas Military Department does not provide support to or operate with local militias.”
As the operation expanded, Eubanks sent back pictures of hundreds of migrants the militias had “rounded up,” huddled on the ground, often surrounded by Border Patrol or what appear to be National Guard members. The militiamen would return excited after stopping a group at gunpoint, according to Lorraine Mercer,
the charity’s ministry director, who got to know the men over many months as their host. They didn’t always wait for government agents to arrive, Mercer said. “Some of them were trying to run them back into Mexico,” she told ProPublica. They’d say, “We’ll handle them, the Border Patrol doesn’t know what they’re doing.”
Seddon wanted the operation to get even more ambitious. And he had a scheme he thought could make that possible. “The bottom line is we need to start making money,” he told state leaders in July 2022. His answer was to create a nonprofit called American Community Outreach Network.
ACON’s website gave no indication of its ties to AP3. It was advertised as a charity that provided services in disaster zones and to disadvantaged youth.
But in internal chats, Seddon was explicit that ACON was a way to fund the militia. “I want every single one of us to fucking get rich,” he said in one video. “I want to be sitting on a yacht in two years with every one of you,” he said in another. Members would receive a 20% cut of any donations they brought in, he promised.
This was more than a getrich-quick ploy, in Seddon’s telling. It could help AP3 thrive in the post-Jan. 6 era.
“I feel reborn,” he said as the plan moved ahead. Imagine if people didn’t need to juggle militia duties with their day jobs, “if every single one of us had the ability to do this fulltime,” he said. It’d be so much easier to mobilize troops to the border or anywhere else.
“It’s Going to Be a Blood Bath”
“This election is do or die for us,” Seddon told his lieutenants in August 2022. The midterm elections were months away, and Democrats controlled the White House and both chambers of Congress. If we can’t retake Congress now, Seddon said in a video, “we’re in real, real deep shit.” He had a plan to get involved.
Seddon wanted AP3 to fan
American militia
out across the country, stake out ballot boxes and deter fraudulent voting, which he claimed was rampant during the 2020 election. “We’re trying to persuade these people maybe that’s not such a good idea,” Seddon said about supposed liberal ballot stuffers. “There’s a large group of what look like some pretty badass patriots outside.” The operation was shortly underway in Arizona, Colorado and Michigan, though it’s unclear how many members heeded Seddon’s call.
Absentee ballots had barely made it into voters’ mailboxes before it all went awry. Eubanks posted a handheld video of a television screen in an internal chat: “NBC Nightly News” was showing surveillance footage of a man in Maricopa County, Arizona. The man hadn’t been identified, but inside AP3, they knew who he was: a Marine veteran named Elias Humiston. Several years before, he had pleaded guilty to an illegal firearm discharge. Now he was at the center of a national news cycle.
Humiston was captured on camera outside a drop box for absentee ballots. His face was masked, and he had a handgun and wore a tactical vest. He had gotten into a confrontation with a woman who tried to record his license plate, prompting the sheriff’s department to arrive.
“Now the DOJ is involved,” Eubanks wrote four days after the incident. Government attorneys said such activities could constitute illegal voter intimidation. But the authorities didn’t appear to know that the anonymous vigilante was a part of AP3.
Humiston had held a leadership role in AP3 and had recently won an award from the militia for his work at the border. He promptly resigned “to protect” AP3, records show. He was never charged with a crime or publicly linked to the militia. (Humiston did not respond to requests for comment.)
Some leaders said that Humiston’s efforts “should be applauded.” Another
camp saw the mission as a foolhardy mistake by Seddon. “Poorly planned and horribly executed,” one leader called it.
Seddon told everyone to stop acting like cowards. “If it’s not this, it’s the fact that we’re white, that we’re Christian,” he said. The DOJ is “going to come at us no matter what we do,” Seddon continued. “Communism — that’s where this country is leading if we don’t take a stand.”
Seddon had always had a short fuse. But he was becoming increasingly militant and inflammatory, according to several longtime members. In messages, he raged against “pedophilia” in schools and the “panels of blacks” “disrespecting white Americans” on MSNBC. When Congress increased the IRS’ budget, he declared that revenue agents were coming to “kill our kids.” Once, in a voice note he recorded while driving, he paused. “I almost ran over this nigger,” Seddon said. “I am not racist — just these dirty fucks walking these streets.”
Seven former leaders told ProPublica they became alarmed by how the rhetoric was shifting in AP3. In the days after Jan. 6, Seddon had suppressed calls for violence, telling members who wanted to assassinate politicians to stand down. But he had stopped acting as a voice of restraint, even as such talk increased.
One morning in August 2022, an ex-cop with at least 100 AP3 members under his command announced a mysterious initiative. He had previously said it was time to take a violent stand against Black Lives Matter: “We will have to suffer some and some will die,” he said, but he was “tired of waiting.” Now he said he planned to assemble a “Tac Team” of “those who will do what others won’t.”
A different afternoon, a different leader put forward his own proposal. “We havnt made any head way in the last 5 plus years,” he wrote. Let’s pick a date and descend on government buildings across the country, he suggested, and then kill the officials who’ve committed treason. “Time to stack body’s up.” (Two others told him to arrange a secret meeting offline.)
After the 2022 midterms, Ross made a plea in an internal chat. “APIII AND EVERY OTHER PATRIOT group seems to want a fight,” he wrote. “A war will leave no winners.” Ross, too, believed that civil war was inevitable, but he pushed for the group to focus on grassroots politics in the meantime. “There’s going to be a time to be violent,” he told ProPublica. “I’m the type
of person who’s like, ‘Now is not the time.’” In AP3, that made him a moderate.
A growing faction had lost hope in the democratic process. Elections and activism are pointless, they maintained; even the midterms were rife with fraud. They felt out of alternatives. Their talk was now a steady drumbeat:
“Get it over with I’ll die with honor.”
“It’s going to be a blood bath.”
“When does AP3 as a whole say, that’s enough and stand up?”
“I Know Where You Live”
Seddon’s downfall started around the turn of this year.
An AP3 member, increasingly suspicious, had obtained a copy of his military discharge papers. That was enough to cause an explosion. After years of touting his Army experience, Seddon’s secret was exposed.
He tried to suppress the uprising that ensued. He threatened a former leader who confronted him about the records in private. “I know where you live,” Seddon wrote on Facebook Messenger. “Tread careful.” Ross accused Seddon of stolen valor and was kicked out.
Seddon’s command quickly began to unravel. A rumor started to spread: Law enforcement was investigating the ACON scheme. The charity had never taken off.
One of Seddon’s ex-deputies told ProPublica it raised less than $5,000. But its website falsely advertised it as a 501(c) (3) nonprofit authorized to accept tax-deductible donations, which the IRS said is not true.
Leaders who had spent months encouraging the initiative now condemned ACON as a scam to put money in Seddon’s pocket.
“Not volunteering for a Rico trial,” one member wrote in a side chat, referring to the racketeering statute that prosecutors use to take down the mafia. In the spring, state chapters began to defect from AP3 in droves.
Soon Seddon had lost a significant majority of his organization. Former leaders estimate that about 10 state chapters stayed on, leaving him to try to rebuild the militia’s presence everywhere else.
Seddon appears undaunted. He’s lost a large chunk of his membership before and managed to recover. (Meanwhile, the instability in his career continues. Recently, he started a business that offers “fast cash” to cancer patients who sign over their life insurance policies.)
His recent setbacks seem to have only made him more volatile. Toward the end of Trump’s criminal trial in May, Seddon wrote on Facebook that Judge Juan Merchan was treating the former president unfairly. “This guy needs to meet his maker,” Seddon said. He followed up by posting the judge’s home address.
Facebook shut down his account, which he’d long been using to promote the militia. The platform conducted a large enforcement action against AP3 in June, according to the Meta spokesperson, removing 40 pages, 15 groups and 600 accounts that “were mostly focusing on recruitment.” The spokesperson said Facebook strengthened its policies at the beginning of the year “to take an even stricter approach to enforcement against this group and other banned militia organizations.”
Seddon was back on social media, this time on TikTok, after the assassination attempt on Trump in July. “This was a direct attack on us,” he said. “We need to become fucking lions.”
AP3’s travails have not been unique. Since the Capitol riot, the militia movement has grown more fractured and decentralized. This may make it harder for one leader to spur mass action. It could also make it harder for one leader to prevent mass action and for law enforcement to track the groups and to intervene.
The presidential election could propel the militia movement in a darker direction. Experts worry that a Trump loss could spark violence from those who feel it’s their only option, especially if he once again refuses to accept the results. If Trump wins and then fulfills his promise to pardon Jan. 6 defendants, they fear the most radical wing of his party could take it as a license for more extreme action.
AP3 may have splintered, but its former members have mostly just moved to other militias. John Valle, Seddon’s former third in command, sees the movement’s future as consisting of state and local groups, operating independently but coordinating on secure messaging apps.
He said that the 286 members of his Washington chapter are now operating as their own independent group. They didn’t want to get caught up in AP3’s potential legal problems, but their mission remains the same. As Valle put it, “We’re just rebranding.” Alex Mierjeski contributed research.
Republished with Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).
State gets nearly $400M for sustainable transportation upgrades
By Staff
The U.S. Department ofTransportation granted $102 million to West Coast states for infrastructure to support zeroemission trucks that haul goods up and down Interstate 5 and other freight corridors, Gov. Gavin Newsom's office announced Tuesday.
The $102 million is for new, publicly accessible electric charging stations and hydrogen fueling stations, with an additional $47 million going to other entities across California for electric vehicle infrastructure.
This round of funding follows $250 million recently announced for upgrading airports across California and supporting sustainable aviation fuel.
"The Biden-Harris Administration is helping California build our clean transportation infrastructure, faster," Newsom said in a statement. "From installing truck chargers to improving our airports, this latest federal funding is another opportunity for America’s exports to look west for moving freight
while fighting our climate crisis."
According to Newsom’s office, the federal funding is essential to the governor's "build more, faster agenda" to upgrade and de-carbonize infrastructure.
With funding from the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the West Coast Truck Charging and Fueling Corridor Project aims to increase zero-emission vehicles in the trucking and logistics industries.
According to the California Air Resources Board, 6% of the vehicles on California roads are trucks, but they spew more than 35% of transportation-generated nitrogen oxides, which cause smog, and 25% of roadway greenhouse gas emissions.
Construction of the charging stations is expected to begin in 2026, the governor's office reported.
The new charging and fueling stations support California’s mandate for an increasing percentage of truck sales to be zero-emission vehicles.
"In 2021, Oregon and
Washington became the second and third states after California to adopt this policy," according to the governor's office. "In 2023, one out of six new mediumand heavy-duty trucks sold in California were zeroemission vehicles, exceeding the state’s ZEV sales goals two years ahead of schedule."
The new infrastructure plans also follow last year's Advanced Clean Fleets standard, which requires fleets statewide to start a phased transition to zeroemission vehicles, and all new medium- and heavy-duty trucks sold in California will be ZEVs by 2036.
The new infrastructure via West Coast Truck Charging and Fueling Corridor Project adds to efforts in the three West Coast states to install light-duty emission-free infrastructure. The more than 14,000 direct current fast chargers in California, Oregon and Washington total a third of the nation’s publicly accessible fast chargers for light-duty vehicles, according to the governor's office.
The federal funding
for the freight truck infrastructure complements state-funded programs for emission-free trucks.
"California has distributed more than $780 million to help fleet operators purchase zero-emission trucks and the state’s Climate Commitment includes over $10 billion to accelerate the ZEV transition and build ZEV charging and fueling infrastructure," according to Newsom's
office.
Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced more than $250 million for California airports and sustainable aviation fuels.
Airports are getting $51.6 million from the Airport Improvement Program, and $78.2 million via the Airport Infrastructure Grants program, according to the governor's office. The funding can be used
for airport planning, development, sustainability, terminal expansions, baggage system upgrades, safety enhancements and noise compatibility projects.
California companies are receiving more than $120 million from federal Fueling Aviation’s Sustainable Transition grants to help along California’s transition to more sustainable aviation fuels and cutting aviation emissions.
As California workers seek higher wages, a program seeks to help them move up
By Suzanne Potter, Producer, Public News Service
Unions representing fast food workers are asking the state's new Fast Food Council to support a 70-cent-per-hour boost in the minimum wage at its next meeting on Sept. 11.
The minimum wage for fast food workers was recently raised to $20 an hour but it works out to just over $41,000 a year, which, in California, is significantly less than the average cost of living.
Linda Becker, director of regional partnerships in the Bay Area for the nonprofit Merit America, supports a higher minimum wage but said it is just a start.
"While raising the minimum wage offers an immediate paycheck boost for low-wage workers, it's
just one piece of the puzzle," Becker explained. "We still really, firmly believe that a low-wage job should be a steppingstone and not a dead end."
Merit America offers intensive career counseling and online courses in IT support, data analytics, cybersecurity, project management and UX design. It costs nothing to start and a maximum of $5,700 total. According to Forbes magazine, it costs on average more than $53,000 a year to cover housing, medical care, food, transportation and taxes in California, the thirdhighest cost of living in the country.
Becker pointed out learners only start to pay Merit America back, at $95
a month, after they get a higher-paying job.
"The average wage gain that we see is about $24,000 a year," Becker reported. "Which is a significant, kind of life-changing increase of wages, post-program."
California's general minimum wage is $16 an hour. Over the next few years, the state is also phasing in a higher minimum wage, of $18 to $25 per hour, for certain health care positions.
Disclosure: Merit America contributes to Public News Service’s fund for reporting on Education, and Livable Wages/ Working Families. If you would like to help support news in the public interest, visit https:// www.publicnewsservice.org/ dn1.php.
A zero-emission freight truck. | Photo courtesy of the California Air Resources Board
A job retraining program from Merit America hopes to help an additional 2,000 people transition from low-wage work into technology careers as it expands its efforts in the Bay Area. | Photo courtesy of Merit America
Probate Notices
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF DILYS JOAN JANECEK
Case No. 24STPB09414
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of DILYS JOAN JANECEK
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Ellie Page in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Ellie Page be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held on Oct. 1, 2024 at 8:30 AM in Dept. No. 44 located at 111 N. Hill St., Los Angeles, CA 90012.
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.
Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.
Attorney for petitioner: TAMRA OTTEN ESQ SBN 172249 WRIGHT KIM DOUGLAS ALC 130 SOUTH JACKSON STREET GLENDALE CA 91205 CN109689 JANECEK Aug 26,29, Sep 2, 2024 BURBANK INDEPENDENT
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF CONSTANCE METCALF
Case No. 24STPB09488
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of CONSTANCE METCALF
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Gerald M. Peck in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Gerald M. Peck be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The inde-
pendent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held on Sept. 23, 2024 at 8:30 AM in Dept. No. 4 located at 111 N. Hill St., Los Angeles, CA 90012.
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.
Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.
Attorney for petitioner: BERNARD NACIONALES ESQ SBN 201799 PO BOX 4851 W COVINA CA 91791 CN109705 METCALF
Aug 26,29, Sep 2, 2024 WEST COVINA PRESS
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: ROSA I. QUINTANA AKA ROSA ISELA QUINTANA AKA ROSA QUINTANA CASE NO. PROVA2400736
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of ROSA I. QUINTANA AKA ROSA ISELA QUINTANA AKA ROSA QUINTANA.
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by JOSE Q. CRUZ AND MARIO DEL HOYO in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that JOSE Q. CRUZ AND MARIO DEL HOYO be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act with limited authority. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 09/24/24 at 9:00AM in Dept. F3 located at 17780 ARROW BLVD., FONTANA, CA 92335
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under sec-
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YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.
Attorney for Petitioner
MAURICE ABADIA - SBN 159766 LAW OFFICE OF MAURICE ABADIA
301 E. COLORADO BLVD., SUITE 616 PASADENA CA 91101
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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:
SANDRA JOY CHASE AKA SANDY CHASE
CASE NO. 24STPB09470
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of SANDRA JOY CHASE AKA SANDY CHASE.
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by SUSAN ROY in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that SUSAN ROY be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 09/24/24 at 8:30AM in Dept. 11 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.
Attorney for Petitioner
PETA-GAY GORDON, ESQ. - SBN 238995
OLDMAN, SALLUS & GOLD, LLP 16133 VENTURA BLVD., PENTHOUSE
ENCINO CA 91436
Telephone (818) 986-8080
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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: DEWITT DAVID WESTBERG AKA DAVID WESTBERG CASE NO. 24STPB09439
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of DEWITT DAVID WESTBERG AKA DAVID WESTBERG.
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by MICHAEL LEXX in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that MICHAEL LEXX be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests the decedent’s WILL and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The WILL and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act with limited authority. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 09/25/24 at 8:30AM in Dept. 29 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.
Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.
Attorney for Petitioner
RYAN D. BOWNE, ESQ. - SBN 236970
LAW OFFICE OF RYAN D. BOWNE, ESQ. 4421 W RIVERSIDE DR., STE. 200 BURBANK CA 91505
Telephone (818) 846-5515 8/29, 9/2, 9/5/24 CNS-3846207# BURBANK INDEPENDENT
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF Cecilia Ramos Moisant CASE NO. PROVA2400746
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Cecilia Ramos Moisant
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Marisa M. Rabbat in the Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Marisa M. Rabbat be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests the decedent’s WILL and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. THE PETITION requests authority
to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act with full authority . (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.)
The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held on 10/1/2024 at 9:00AM in Dept. Department F3 - Fontana located at 17780 ARROW BLVD FONTANA CA 92335.
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.
Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.
Attorney for Petitioner: Cindy K. Myers (SBN: 297532) Coastal Estate Planning, P.C. 3548 Seagate Way Suite 240 Oceanside, CA 92056 Telephone: 858-549-8600
8/29, 9/2, 9/5/24
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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: ZOE ANN MORRISON CASE NO. 24STPB06732
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of ZOE ANN MORRISON.
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by PAULA CORSETTI in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that PAULA CORSETTI be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 09/25/24 at 8:30AM in Dept. 9 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by
the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.
Attorney for Petitioner
DONALD L. SCOGGINS - SBN 167359
ATTORNEY AT LAW 9190 W. OLYMPIC BLVD. #414 BEVERLY HILLS CA 90212
Telephone (323) 591-0144
8/29, 9/2, 9/5/24 CNS-3846784# PASADENA PRESS
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:
DONNA JEAN MCPEAK CASE NO. 24STPB09605 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of DONNA JEAN MCPEAK.
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by CHARLES MCPEAK in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that CHARLES MCPEAK be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests the decedent’s WILL and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The WILL and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 09/26/24 at 8:30AM in Dept. 11 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.
Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner
Ave H514, Ontario, CA 91761; Zhuorui Li, Secretary. County of Principal Place of Business: San Bernardino This business is conducted by: a corporation. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on April 22, 2024. By signing below, I declare that I have read and understand the reverse side of this form and that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing pursuant to the California Public Records Act (Government Code Sections 6250- 6277). /s/ Zhuorui Li, Secretary. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on May 1, 2024 NoticeIn accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920. A Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code) File#: FBN20240004141
Pub: 06/10/2024, 06/17/2024, 06/24/2024, 07/01/2024, 07/08/2024, 07/15/2024, 07/22/2024, 07/29/2024 San Bernardino Press
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as Villa Hemet
550 N Santa Fe St Hemet, CA 92543 Riverside County Mailing Address, 610 N Santa Anita Ave Floor 2, Arcadia, CA 91006. Los Angeles County
550 N Santa Fe St, LLC (CA, 610 N Santa Anita Ave Floor 2, Arcadia, CA 91006 Los Angeles County
This business is conducted by: a limited liability company (llc). Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on August 22, 2019. I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code, that the registrant knows to be false, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousands dollars ($1000).) s. Rao R. Yalamanchili, Manager Statement filed with the County of Riverside on July 18, 2024 NOTICE: In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of the five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any changes in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 Et Seq., business and professions code).
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Peter Aldana, County, Clerk File# R-202409434
Pub. 07/29/2024, 08/05/2024, 08/12/2024, 08/19/2024 Riverside
The
Los Angeles County This business is conducted by: a limited liability company (llc). Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on June 10, 2021. I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code, that the registrant knows to be false, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousands dollars ($1000).)
s. Srinivas Yalamanchili, Manager Statement filed with the County of Riverside on July 22, 2024 NOTICE: In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of the five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any changes in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 Et Seq., business and professions code). I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Peter Aldana, County, Clerk File# R-202409540 Pub. 07/29/2024, 08/05/2024, 08/12/2024, 08/19/2024 Riverside Independent
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as Hemet Duplexes 2486 W Oakland Ave Hemet, CA 92545 Riverside County Mailing Address, 610 N Santa Anita Ave Floor 2, Arcadia, CA 91006. Los Angeles County PI Properties LLC (CA, 610 N Santa Anita Ave Arcadia, CA 91006 Los Angeles County This business is conducted by: a limited liability company (llc). Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on February 9, 2016. I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code, that the registrant knows to be false, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousands dollars ($1000).)
s. Rao R Yalamanchili, Manager Statement filed with the County of Riverside on July 22, 2024 NOTICE: In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of the five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any changes in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 Et Seq., business and professions code).
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Peter Aldana, County, Clerk File# R202409528 Pub. 07/29/2024, 08/05/2024, 08/12/2024, 08/19/2024 Riverside Independent
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as Beaumont Apts 845 E 6th St Beaumont, CA 92223 Riverside County Mailing Address, 610 N Santa Anita Ave Floor 2, Arcadia, CA 91006. Los Angeles County PI Properties NO. 130 LLC (CA, 610 N Santa Anita Ave Arcadia, CA 91006 Los Angeles County This business is conducted by: a limited liability company (llc). Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on March 15, 2021. I
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declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code, that the registrant knows to be false, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousands dollars ($1000).) s. Rao R Yalamanchili, Manager Statement filed with the County of Riverside on July 19, 2024 NOTICE: In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of the five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any changes in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 Et Seq., business and professions code).
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Peter Aldana, County, Clerk File# R-202409483 Pub. 07/29/2024, 08/05/2024, 08/12/2024, 08/19/2024 Riverside Independent
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as Park Columbia Apts 201 Columbia St Hemet, CA 92544 Riverside County Mailing Address, 610 N Santa Anita Ave Floor 2, Arcadia, CA 91006. Los Angeles County Park Columbia, LLC (CA, 610 N Santa Anita Ave Arcadia, CA 91006
Los Angeles County
This business is conducted by: a limited liability company (llc). Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on September 1, 2014. I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code, that the registrant knows to be false, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousands dollars ($1000).) s. Rao R Yalamanchili, Manager Statement filed with the County of Riverside on July 19, 2024
NOTICE: In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of the five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any changes in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 Et Seq., business and professions code).
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Peter Aldana, County, Clerk File# R-202409484 Pub. 07/29/2024, 08/05/2024, 08/12/2024, 08/19/2024 Riverside Independent
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as Oak Terrace Senior Apts 551 N Santa Fe St Hemet, CA 92543 Riverside County Mailing Address, 610 N Santa Anita Ave Floor 2, Arcadia, CA 91006. Los Angeles County PI Properties NO. 22, LLC (CA, 610 N Santa Anita Ave Arcadia, CA 91006
Los Angeles County
This business is conducted by: a limited liability company (llc). Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on August 16, 2019. I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code, that the registrant knows to be false,
is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousands dollars ($1000).)
s. Rao R Yalamanchili, Manager Statement filed with the County of Riverside on July 19, 2024 NOTICE: In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of the five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any changes in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 Et Seq., business and professions code). I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Peter Aldana, County, Clerk File# R-202409477 Pub. 07/29/2024, 08/05/2024, 08/12/2024, 08/19/2024 Riverside Independent
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as Nicolet Apts 233 W Nicolet St Banning, CA 92220 Riverside County Mailing Address, 610 N Santa Anita Ave Floor 2, Arcadia, CA 91006. Los Angeles County PI Properties NO. 130 LLC (CA, 610 N Santa Anita Ave Arcadia, CA 91006
Los Angeles County
This business is conducted by: a limited liability company (llc). Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on February 28, 2022. I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code, that the registrant knows to be false, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousands dollars ($1000).) s. Rao R Yalamanchili, Manager Statement filed with the County of Riverside on July 19, 2024 NOTICE: In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of the five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any changes in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 Et Seq., business and professions code). I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Peter Aldana, County, Clerk File# R-202409482 Pub. 07/29/2024, 08/05/2024, 08/12/2024, 08/19/2024 Riverside Independent
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as Vintage Woods Apts 87 E Jarvis St Perris, CA 92571
Riverside County Mailing Address, 610 N Santa Anita Ave Floor 2, Arcadia, CA 91006. Los Angeles County Vintage Woods LLC (CA, 610 N Santa Anita Ave Arcadia, CA 91006
Los Angeles County
This business is conducted by: a limited partnership. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on April 22, 2016. I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code, that the registrant knows to be false, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousands dollars ($1000).)
s. Rao R Yalamanchili, General Partner Statement filed with the County of Riverside on July 22, 2024
NOTICE: In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of the five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any changes in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 Et Seq., business and professions code).
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Peter Aldana, County, Clerk File# R-202409549 Pub. 07/29/2024, 08/05/2024, 08/12/2024, 08/19/2024 Riverside Independent
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. FBN20240007094
The following persons are doing business as: (1). Notary, Apostille & Translation Services (2). Uptown Notaries (3). Say I Do – Marriage License & Ceremony , 8599 Haven Ave Suite #306, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730. Mailing Address, Po Box 9274, Whittier, CA 90608. Aracelly J Sanchez, 12432 Pasadena St, Whittier, CA 90601. County of Principal Place of Business: San Bernardino
This business is conducted by: a individual. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on July 12, 2024. By signing below, I declare that I have read and understand the reverse side of this form and that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing pursuant to the California Public Records Act (Government Code Sections 6250- 6277). /s/ Aracelly J Sanchez, Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on August 7, 2024 Notice- In accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920. A Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code) File#: FBN20240007094 Pub: 08/12/2024, 08/19/2024, 08/26/2024, 09/02/2024 San Bernardino Press
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as TACOS EL CHAPULIN 6104 Mission Blvd Jurupa Valley, CA 92509 Riverside County Mailing Address, 8628 6th St, Downey, CA 90241. Riverside County El Chapulin LLC (CA, 6104 Mission Blvd, Jurupa Valley, CA 92509 Riverside County This business is conducted by: a limited liability company (llc). Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code, that the registrant knows to be false, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousands dollars ($1000).)
s. Yahir german caiceros galeno, President Statement filed with the County of Riverside on August 7, 2024
NOTICE: In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of the five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any changes in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 Et Seq., business and professions code). I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Peter Aldana, County, Clerk File# R-202410125 Pub. 08/19/2024, 08/26/2024, 09/02/2024, 09/09/2024 Riverside Independent
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as Trusted Ledger Solutions 3610 central ave, suite 400 Riverside, CA 92506 Riverside County Jose Francisco Navarro, 3610 central ave, suite 400, Riverside, CA 92506 Riverside County This business is conducted by: a individual. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code, that the registrant knows to be false, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousands dollars ($1000).) s. Jose Francisco Navarro Statement filed with the County of Riverside on August 13, 2024 NOTICE: In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of the five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any changes in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 Et Seq., business and professions code). I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Peter Aldana, County, Clerk File# R-202410346 Pub. 08/19/2024, 08/26/2024, 09/02/2024, 09/09/2024 Riverside Independent
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as PlainJoe Studios Architecture, Inc. 7345 Piute Creek Drive Corona, CA 92881 Riverside County Storyland Architecture, Inc. (CA, 7345 Piute Creek Drive, Corona, CA 92881 Riverside County This business is conducted by: a corporation. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on August 14, 2024. I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code, that the registrant knows to be false, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousands dollars ($1000).) s. Blake Ryan, President Statement filed with the County of Riverside on August 15, 2024 NOTICE: In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of the five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any changes in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must
be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 Et Seq., business and professions code).
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Peter Aldana, County, Clerk
File# R-202410478
Pub. 08/19/2024, 08/26/2024, 09/02/2024, 09/09/2024 Riverside Independent
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. FBN20240007036
The following persons are doing business as: Gen Transport, 1726 N Sierra Way, San Bernardino, CA 92405. Mailing Address, 1726 N Sierra Way, San Bernardino, CA 92405. Alisson M Valle, 1726 N Sierra Way, San Bernardino, CA 92405. County of Principal Place of Business: San Bernardino
This business is conducted by: a individual. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on August 6, 2024. By signing below, I declare that I have read and understand the reverse side of this form and that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing pursuant to the California Public Records Act (Government Code Sections 62506277). /s/ Alisson M Valle, Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on August 6, 2024 Notice- In accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920. A Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name
in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code) File#: FBN20240007036
Pub: 08/19/2024, 08/26/2024, 09/02/2024, 09/09/2024 San Bernardino Press
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as (1). Riverside Independent (2). Corona News Press 820 S. Myrtle Ave Monrovia, CA 91016 Los Angeles County Mailing Address 820 S. Myrtle Ave Monrovia, CA 91016 Los Angeles County Hlr Media, LLC (CA, 820 S. Myrtle Ave, Monrovia, CA 91016 Los Angeles County
This business is conducted by: a limited liability company (llc). Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code, that the registrant knows to be false, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousands dollars ($1000).)
s. Vafa Von Raees, President Statement filed with the County of Riverside on August 15, 2024 NOTICE: In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of the five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any changes in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 Et Seq., business and professions code).
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Peter Aldana, County, Clerk File# R-202410529 Pub. 08/26/2024, 09/02/2024,
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09/09/2024, 09/16/2024 Riverside Independent
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as Mindful Mortgage Solutions 31630 Railroad Canyon Rd Suite 15 Canyon Lake, CA 92587
Riverside County First Link Mortgage (CA, 31630 Railroad Canyon Rd suite 15, Canyon Lake, CA 92587
Riverside County
This business is conducted by: a corporation. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code, that the registrant knows to be false, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousands dollars ($1000).)
s. Coby Chatwin, CEO
Statement filed with the County of Riverside on August 15, 2024
NOTICE: In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of the five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any changes in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 Et Seq., business and professions code). I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Peter Aldana, County, Clerk File# R-202410498 Pub. 09/02/2024, 09/09/2024, 09/16/2024, 09/23/2024 Riverside Independent
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 20246697730. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: BRIDGEUS, 8 Corporate Park Ste 300, Irvine, CA 92606. Full Name of Registrant(s) BRIDGEUS LLC (CA, 8 Corporate Park Ste 300, Irvine, CA 92606.
This business is conducted by a limited liability company (llc). Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. BRIDGEUS. /S/ Junsoo Lim, Secretery. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Orange County on August 29, 2024. Publish: Anaheim Press 09/02/2024, 09/09/2024, 09/16/2024, 09/23/2024
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. FBN20240007718
The following persons are doing business as: HENLIV, 13969 Cameo Drive, Fontana, CA 92337. Mailing Address, 10950 Arrow Route 2362, Rancho Cucamonga, Ca , CA 91279. Aarica M Sanders, 13969 Cameo Drive, Fontana, CA 92337. County of Principal Place of Business: San Bernardino
This business is conducted by: a individual. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. By signing below, I declare that I have read and understand the reverse side of this form and that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing pursuant to the California Public Records Act (Government Code Sections 6250- 6277). /s/ Aarica M Sanders, Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on August 26, 2024 Notice- In accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920. A Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions
Code) File#: FBN20240007718
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. FBN20240007719
The following persons are doing business as: A/S CONCEPTS CO, 13969 Cameo Drive, Fontana, CA 92337. Mailing Address, 10950 Arrow Route 2362, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 92337. Aarica M Sanders, 13969 Cameo Drive, Fontana, CA 92337. County of Principal Place of Business: San Bernardino This business is conducted by: a individual. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. By signing below, I declare that I have read and understand the reverse side of this form and that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing pursuant to the California Public Records Act (Government Code Sections 6250- 6277). /s/ Aarica M Sanders, Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on August 26, 2024 Notice- In accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920. A Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code) File#: FBN20240007719
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. FBN20240007793
The following persons are doing business as: (1). HUGGING HEARTS (2). CC ADVISING AND SERVICES , 551 E Riverside Dr APT 43, Ontario, CA 91761. Mailing Address, 551 E Riverside Dr APT 43, Ontario, CA 91761. JOAN CORDERO, 551 E Riverside Dr APT 43, Ontario, CA 91761. County of Principal Place of Business: San Bernardino This business is conducted by: a individual. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. By signing below, I declare that I have read and understand the reverse side of this form and that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing pursuant to the California Public Records Act (Government Code
Suspects accused of firearm violations, child endangerment appear in court
By City News Service
Two men in custody on suspicion of child endangerment following reports of gunfire in Coachella appeared at arraignments Thursday.
Mecca resident Frank Molina, 38, pleaded not guilty to felony counts of discharging a firearm in a negligent manner and willful child cruelty, while Bernardo Moreno, 46, of Coachella, also pleaded not guilty to the latter count.
The defendants are due back in court for a Sept. 10 felony settlement conference.
Molina and Moreno were each arrested at 11:55 p.m. on June 30 and booked into the John Benoit Detention Center.
Riverside County sheriff’s deputies arrived at the 50000 block of Camino
A17-year-old
suspect in Lake Elsinore
shooting arrested
17-year-oldboy suspected of a shooting in Lake Elsinore was taken into custody, authorities announced Wednesday.
Deputies responded to the 400 block of West Heald Avenue around 3 p.m. Sunday regarding reports of shots fired, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department.
Coras in Coachella at 3:55 p.m. on June 30 following reports of gunfire, according to a statement from the Thermal Station, which claimed deputies searched a home in the area and located four handguns, one rifle and ammunition.
The deputies also found “evidence of multiple firearms being discharged” in a negligent manner,
according to the statement.
There were no reports of any injuries. Details about the alleged child endangerment were not immediately available.
Both were being held in lieu of $35,000 bail.
Anyone with information on the case was encouraged to contact Deputy Preciado at Thermal Sheriff’s Station at 760-863-8990.
Investigators with the Lake Elsinore Special Enforcement Team and Region 4 Gang Task Force identified the suspect as a teen from Lake Elsinore.
He was located Tuesday around 8:30 p.m. near Ellis and Franklin streets after eluding law enforcement in a vehicle pursuit.
“During the pursuit, deputies observed the suspect discard an item near the 400 block of East Franklin Street.
The item was recovered and discovered to be a rifle,” sheriff’s officials said in a statement. The teen eventually surrendered to deputies shortly after the pursuit and was taken into custody without incident.
No measures seeking RiversideCounty residents’support for a sales tax hike to pay for countywide transportation projects will appear on the November ballot, but voters are being told Friday to prepare to be asked in the future to say “yea” or “nay,” Riverside County Transportation Commission Chairman Lloyd White said.
“Now is not the time to seek voter approval on a new measure to fund the ‘2024 Traffic Relief Plan,’ but I think the time is coming soon,”
CThe suspect was booked on suspicion of attempted murder at the Riverside County Juvenile Hall, along with felony evading and multiple weapon-related offenses.
Anyone with information regarding the shooting was urged to call the Lake Elsinore Station at 951-245-3300.
Additional evidence linking the suspect to the shooting was recovered after investigators executed a search warrant at a residence in Lake Elsinore, according to sheriff’s officials.
Riverside County commission shies away from seeking sales tax hike this year
By City News Service
Lloyd said.
The chairman, who is also the mayor of Beaumont, said the plan, which was presented to residents following surveys earlier this year, “shows we are listening to our residents and looking for ways to reduce traffic congestion, invest in public transportation, fill potholes and respond to natural disasters to keep our roads safe.”
According to RCTC, residents’ support for transportation projects is generally high, but it falls just shy of the two-thirds supermajority
threshold required to approve a one-cent countywide sales tax measure. The Traffic Relief Plan
identified more than $30 billion in improvements to transportation infrastructure that should be incorporated
into RCTC’s list of objectives over the long term.
The last time voters approved a countywide sales tax hike dedicated to transportation projects was in the early 1990s.
“The TRP’s proactive framework was designed to meet the region’s transportation needs based on the anticipated population and economic growth as predicted by the Southern California Association of Governments,” according to an RCTC statement. “Although the commission has decided not
to place a sales tax measure on the 2024 General Election ballot, the improvements and investments identified in the TRP are ready to be implemented when funding becomes available.”
The plan contains a list of proposed region-wide investments, including the Riverside metropolitan area, Coachella Valley, Temecula Valley and San Gorgonio Pass.
The plan summary and descriptions of funding opportunities are available at rctc.org/traffic-relief-plan.
Cathedral City gives preview of pre-approved accessory dwelling unit plan
athedral City officials are preparing Friday to launch a pre-approved accessory dwelling unit (ADU) program. The program provides four sets of ADU building plans
that have been previewed and approved by the Building and Safety Department, with no usage cost outside of standard permitting fees, according to a statement issued Thursday. In the statement, the
By City News Service
city promoted the idea that residents opting for these designs would not face the extra cost that an architect would bring.
Pre-approved ADU floor plans come in three
be as pronounced. Daytime highs for the rest of the current week will continue to edge toward 110, with lows in the mid-80s. After Labor Day, the mercury is predicted to range into the 110s daily to the
end of next week. There’s also a chance for scattered monsoonal thunderstorms in the Coachella and Palo Verde
options, each with a further choice of a Desert Modern or Mediterranean architectural style. The program also covers an option that would transform a two-car garage into a junior acces-
valleys next week, according to the National Weather Service.
The Temecula Valley will
sory dwelling unit.
The city warned that making use of the program would still incur Cathedral City’s stand permitting fees, and that it would “require the submittal of a site plan as well as other supplemental documents depending on specific site conditions.”
continue with seasonable daytime highs around 90 degrees for the rest of August, and after Labor Day, the end-
More information on the program is online at cathedralcity.gov.
of-summer temperature spike will put the mercury just below 100 for a few days, with lows in the mid 60s.
Authorities seized these firearms and ammunition following the arrests of two Coachella Valley residents. | Photo courtesy of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department
The sheriff’s station in Lake Elsinore. | Photo courtesy of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department
| Photos courtesy of the Riverside County Transportation Commission
Felon who led police on Perris Valley pursuit admits drug charge
By City News Service
A36-year-old felon who fled from police in a high-speed chase from Riverside into the Perris Valley while carrying firearms and a large amount of methamphetamine pleaded guilty Wednesday to possession of controlled substances while armed.
Ronny David Melton Jr. of Riverside admitted the felony count under a plea agreement with the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office. In exchange for his admission, prosecutors agreed to drop five related charges, including an evading allegation, against Melton.
Superior Court Judge Walter Kubelun scheduled a sentencing hearing for Sept. 9 at the Riverside Hall of Justice and left the defendant’s bail set at $250,000. He’s being held at the Byrd Detention Center in Murrieta. The judge did not indicate a prospective prison term.
According to Riverside police Officer Ryan Railsback, on the afternoon of March 17, 2021, a county sheriff’s helicopter crew was circling the Mission Grove neighborhood on the south end of the city when a LoJack signal buzzed, alerting the crew to the presence of a stolen tractor.
The crew isolated the signal to the 14400 block of Wood Road, and patrol units converged on the location a few minutes later, encountering a black Lexus occupied by the defendant and a woman leaving a house over which the chopper was flying, Railsback said.
He said officers signaled Melton to stop, but he sped around the cruiser and headed south.
“The driver traveled at dangerous speeds, with no regard for others, so the pursuit was discontinued,”
said the Lexus abruptly stopped in the early stages of the chase, and a bag containing “a sawedoff shotgun, two loaded handguns, assorted ammunition and a large amount of ... crystal methamphetamine” was dumped along a roadside.
A patrol unit went to the spot and collected the evidence, Railsback said, and the pursuit continued, with the helicopters tracking the Lexus as it went into Nuevo.
“The driver briefly stopped to refuel ... even speeding away with the gas nozzle still attached to the car,” he said.
Deputies took over the chase, trying to convince the driver to stop, at which point he entered the Ramona Expressway, then turned onto Fifth Street and headed into an open field but got bogged down in mud, according to Railsback.
Melton and his female companion, whose identity was not disclosed, exited the Lexus and surrendered. The pursuit lasted about an hour.
A search of the vehicle revealed more meth, “a large amount of money and items associated with illegal narcotics sales,” Railsback said.
Back at the home where Melton had been staying, the stolen tractor was seized, as well as 10 other stolen vehicles, according to the police spokesman.
The woman was questioned and released, and Melton was jailed. No charges connected with the stolen vehicles were filed in the case due to evidentiary concerns.
Court records show Melton has prior convictions for identity theft, auto theft, possession of controlled substances and check fraud.
Suspect in multiple Riverside County rape cases behind bars
By City News Service
Asuspectallegedly linkedtomultiple sexual assault cases in Riverside County remained in custody Wednesday following his arrest.
The Palm Springs Police Department arrested local resident Juan Segura on Aug. 21, according to Riverside County inmate records. Segura is scheduled to make an initial court appearance on Sept. 4 at the Larson Justice Center in Indio, with detectives saying they found sufficient evidence to charge him with six felony sexual assault and rape-related counts.
Segura is currently being held at the John Benoit Detention Center.
Authorities received a
report from a person identified only as Jane Doe on Aug. 19, according to the criminal complaint and a PSPD statement released Tuesday afternoon, which said the person met a suspect identified as “JC” at a Palm Springs bar. After socializing with JC and his friends at a local hotel, the situation allegedly escalated to a nonconsensual sexual encounter.
The alleged victim left Palm Springs and traveled to another location in the Inland Empire, reporting the incident to local authorities there.
In the course of the investigation, detectives said they were able to determine JC’s identity as Segura, locating
him in the 400 block of East Arenas Road. He was taken into custody without incident and initially held on a bail of $180,000.
Upon further investigation, detectives said they found evidence tying Segura to additional crimes, including a case in March when the reporting party “believed they were drugged and raped by Segura” and a case in August where the alleged victim “blacked out and awoke with injuries consistent with sexual assault,” according to a PSPD statement.
The criminal complaint filed against the defendant alleged the use of “force, violence and fear of immediate and unlawful bodily
injury” in at least two cases, one of which allegedly involved a minor, as well as two occurrences when an unlawful sexual act was performed on an unconscious person, authorities said. In two other counts, Segura was accused of using an anesthetic, intoxicating and/or controlled substance.
Following the detectives’ discoveries, Segura is now being held without bail.
Anyone with information regarding the aforementioned cases or additional details about Segura was encouraged to contact Detective Michael Delgado at 760-323-8145 or via email at Michael.Delgado@palmspringsca.gov.
Aaron Hake and Kurt Wilson, Western executive director of the Riverside Council of Governments.
“This bridge is a critical link for our communities here in Riverside County and beyond,” Spiegel said in a statement. “At a time of tremendous population growth in our county, construction of the 6-lane bridge will benefit motorists, residents, and visitors for years to come.”
The original Hamner Avenue bridge honored Riverside County Supervisor John Thomas “J.T.” Hamner, who served on the board from 1902 to 1922. Officials described Hamner as “a passionate horseman” from Corona who was dedicated to improving the region and strongly supported public transportation — Hamner incorporated a trolly line in the area, among other local modernization efforts.
The bridge dedication on Monday honored another passionate horseman, former Norco Mayor Berwin Hanna, who, just like Hamner, is an advocate for public transportation improvements in the region, according to the county. The Norco City Council approved the bridge renaming in December 2020 following a community request.
As a Norco councilman, Hanna has made persistent
regional efforts to advocate for the funding and construction of the new bridge.
“Since joining the City Council in 2007, Berwin has consistently advocated for Norco at all levels of government and has brought continuous attention to the Hamner Bridge Project,” Norco Mayor Kevin Bash said in a statement. “May this bridge forever stand as a testament to Mayor Hanna’s enduring legacy and symbolize his unwavering
Berwin Hanna Bridge
Railsback said. “The sheriff’s helicopter was then aided by our Riverside police helicopter, following the Lexus as it
continued to flee and drive recklessly at speeds through the city and county areas.”
The police spokesman
Crystal methamphetamine. | Photo courtesy of WikiLinuz/Wikimedia Commons (CC0 1.0)
Juan Segura. | Photo courtesy of the Palm Springs Police Department/Facebook
dedication, selfless service and profound impact on the Norco community.”
The bridge is currently open for vehicle traffic, a county spokeswoman said.
Construction workers build the Hamner Avenue bridge. | Photo courtesy of Riverside County